On 18 Jul 2015, at 16:58, Janusz S. Bien wrote: > cyrillic-translit and most other Emacs input methods are more > convenient than on-screen keyboard, especially if you don't like to > use mouse and your goal is to get the text into Emacs :-)
The OSK while working by mouse click too, does not require the use of the mouse/trackpad. > > This is why, too, the goal should be > > to pack a reasonably large subset of Unicode into the very core of > > the keyboard driver of every locale, and make it accessible right > > there with a Compose tree. > > I don't think it would be practical. Could you please explain in any way what is the reason why a Compose key, or a huge Compose tree, wouldn't be practical? I'm interested in knowing more about this issue. > > Every time we open charmap dialogs or even go on the internet to > > pick a character, weʼre consuming some energy, > > Agreed. > > > and if itʼs a routine task that could be done with a memorized > > Memorizing also requires some effort and energy. Like using the bicycle instead of the car... > > Of course we need some software as a savior, but this software is > > consequently called Zotero and helps us save and manage our research > > results (“Search, not re-search!” https://www.zotero.org). > > I have nothing against Zotero, but its mention here seems completely > irrelevant. We just were talking about saviors. Marcel