On Oct 21, 2:21 pm, José Miguel Figueroa-O'Farrill
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> On 21 Oct 2007, at 19:31, Roger Levy wrote:
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> > On Oct 21, 5:37 am, José Miguel Figueroa-O'Farrill
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> On 21 Oct 2007, at 03:04, Roger Levy wrote:
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> >>> Hi,
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> >>> I've been using Carbon Emacs for a while, and now use the version
> >>> 22.1.1 on OS X 10.4.10. I now find that when I try to switch to
> >>> another language input via Toggle Input Method, as soon as I switch
> >>> into the other language input I get bounced back to standard ASCII
> >>> input :( Anyone have thoughts on how to diagnose & fix the problem?
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> >>> Many thanks,
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> >>> Roger
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> >> I have not used Carbon Emacs for a while, but this happens in
> >> Aquamacs every time I start up and I solve the problem by ensuring
> >> that "Use system input method" is off. It may not be the same
> >> problem, but it's worth a try.
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> > Many thanks for this tip, José! I haven't used Aquamacs before but I
> > jus installed it and I see that this does work. Do you by chance know
> > how to turn "Use system input method" off by default?
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> > Also, more generally, what are the (other) advantages you find of
> > Aquamacs over Carbon Emacs? I'm curious why you're using Aquamacs
> > instead now.
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> > Best & many thanks,
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> > Roger
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> To answer your first question: I have the following line in my .emacs:
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> (setq mac-input-method-mode nil)
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> which disables the native Mac input method by default.
Terrific, this works for me. Thanks!
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> I'm glad you asked the question because it forced me to solve a
> problem I'd been living with for a while: in a previous version of
> Aquamacs the variable was 'mac-inline-input-method-mode' and at some
> point it changed and broke my .emacs. (I should probably read the
> recent changes more carefully, but who has the time?!)
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> As for your second question, I'm not sure I have a very satisfying
> answer. When I started using Mac a little over two years ago, I
> tried a number of different Emacsen. (I had been using XEmacs prior
> to that time.) I didn't like the look of XEmacs on the mac, nor that
> of most X apps -- forgive my superficiality! -- so I finally settled
> on two: Aquamacs and the Carbon Emacs of Zenitani-san. In terms of
> the functionality that I desire (VM, AUCTeX and the ability to create
> documents in a variety of scripts, including Japanese), both are more
> or less equivalent and the only reason I can think why I have come to
> use Aquamacs rather than Carbon Emacs is that David Reitter, the main
> Aquamacs developer, happens to be at my university! Not a very good
> reason, but a reason nonetheless.
Oh, gee, I didn't realize that! David happens to be a colleague of
mine. I guess that is a good reason for me to switch too...and I
guess I can always bug David personally if there's a feature I want to
see added :)
Thanks again for the help.
Roger
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