on Saturday, March 09, 2002 3:40 PM H. Narfi Stefansson wrote: > On Saturday 09 March 2002 06:07 am, Michael Beddow wrote: > > I can get it to start up and accept input using the normal shift-space > > key combination, but the same combination should toggle it off > > again, and it doesn't, so it's not possible to revert to ASCII input. > > And the TAB to cycle between input modes doesn't seem to work > > either. > > > But doesn't ctrl-\ work to get back to ASCII input? Does Ctrl-w work to > cycle between input modes? > I've had no problems with kinput2 since the middle of the testing cycle of > beta3. > My reference for the key strokes in kinput2 in Mandrake has always been > http://www.mozilla.org/quality/intl/kinput2/kinput2keys.html >
Ah I didn't know that page. Maybe stupidly, I'd believed the docs in the distro, at /usr/share/doc/kinput2-wnn4-v3.1/doc/defaultkeys and they say Shift-Space is a toggle (and so does that Mozilla page for that matter),but it's in fact one-way, IME on only. You're right, Ctrl-\ (not listed in the local docs) goes back to ASCII (as does Ctrl-4), which is what I badly needed. Ctrl-w (again not listed in the local docs) does what the Mozilla page says, i.e. starts Kanji conversion on first press, then brings up candidate window on second press): according to the local docs, this is done by Ctrl-j. So Ctrl-w doesn't do the mode cycle you describe (Romanji -> half-width ASCII -> full-width ASCII -> Romanji) but I can live without that. Thanks for sorting this out. I really think this ought to be correctly documented in the distro, not on an obscure part of the Mozilla site. Michael --------------------------------------------------------- Michael Beddow http://www.mbeddow.net/
