On 22 Oct 2007, at 18:20, Roger Levy wrote: > On Oct 21, 2:21 pm, José Miguel Figueroa-O'Farrill > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 21 Oct 2007, at 19:31, Roger Levy wrote: >>> On Oct 21, 5:37 am, José Miguel Figueroa-O'Farrill >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> On 21 Oct 2007, at 03:04, Roger Levy wrote: >> >>>>> Hi, >> >>>>> 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? >> >>>>> Many thanks, >> >>>>> Roger >> >>>> 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. >> >>> 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? >> >>> 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. >> >>> Best & many thanks, >> >>> Roger >> >> To answer your first question: I have the following line in >> my .emacs: >> >> (setq mac-input-method-mode nil) >> >> which disables the native Mac input method by default. > > Terrific, this works for me. Thanks! > >> >> 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?!) > > > >> >> 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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