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[Emacspeak] Re: Irritating Quail Bug



"T.V Raman via Emacspeak" <emacspeak(a)emacspeak.org> writes:

> Hendur Saga via Emacspeak <emacspeak(a)emacspeak.org> writes:
>
>
> I've never used quail -- but it's also not clear that quail in the
> prefered emacs solution for this any more.
>
> When I do need to type French or German (admittedly rare) I typically
> use C-\> Hello Emacspeakers,
> toggle-input-method and pick the input method that I want  and that
> works with no issues.
>
> From memory quail dates back to Emacs-20 and consequently feels pretty
> ancient. 
>
>>
>> I have this really annoying bug in Emacspeak. Essentially I'm trying
>> to input, say, German or French, and so naturally I'm using
>> input-method and Quail. It works fine, except Emacspeak is apparently
>> speaking out "key dash sequence" literally every time I try inputting
>> an accented character. I set up speech server logging and, sure
>> enough, it logged "key-sequence" as described. However, since it
>> wasn't logging to the messages buffer, I suspected it was "reading"
>> that only from the echo area, because I could not see anything in the
>> messages buffer, which was correct[1].
>>
>> My question is, what would be a good way to either 1) tell Quail to
>> never echo incomplete key sequences, or 2) tell Emacspeak to be quiet
>> for these messages (it appears there's an advice around
>> read-key-sequence that is called by quail-start-translation[2]). It
>> would also be nice if there was something like debug-on-message but
>> for messages sent to the echo area but not logged. Perhaps by ensuring
>> message-log-max doesn't get set to nil for some scope?? For the first
>> option, I've already set both input-method-highlight-flag and
>> input-method-verbose-flag to nil, as well as emacspeak-character-echo.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Hendursaga
>>
>> [1]
>> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/lisp/international/quail.el?h=emacs-28#n2060
>>
>> [2]
>> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/lisp/international/quail.el?h=emacs-28#n1428
>>
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