Re: smartquotes.el -- Insertion of unicode quotes in text documents

[David Kastrup]

Kenichi Handa <address@hidden> writes:

> In article <address@hidden>, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>     I think this might need a way to have several Quail methods active at
>>     once.
>
>> You may be right.  Handa-san, can you implement that easily?
>
> Activating multiple input methods itself won't be that
> difficult, but there are many subtle matters to be solved.
>
> What kind of user interface should be provided for
> activating and deactivating multiple input methods?
> What to do for C-h C-\?
> What to show in the modeline?
> etc.

I think that we should distinguish between user-visible
language-related input methods, and the quail mechanism being
available to minor modes internally.

The relation is similar between major and minor buffer modes: while
you usually don't have more than one major mode active, minor modes
are on _top_ of that, and often multiple such modes make sense.

-- 
David Kastrup