I would like to use an X-Windows Input Method (XIM for short) to enter keystrokes into AbiWord. I have built an XIM program that works (mostly) with the Yudit editor; it would be nice if AbiWord would recognize the Unix environment variable XMODIFIERS and try to connect to the input method so specified. (Or do it more like Yudit: have a menu for the user to select which XIM to try to attach to.) Anyone who wants to play with my XIM can grab a copy at http://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/private/keypressIM.c ; it is set up specifically to allow Yiddish to be entered conveniently.
Raphael Finkel
