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24.4; Support for OS X press and hold

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Message #23 received at 19931 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: Pankaj Jangid <pankaj <at> codeisgreat.org>
Cc: 19931 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>,
 Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Subject: Re: bug#19931: 24.4; Support for OS X press and hold
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2020 23:20:49 +0200

>> But any postfix input method in Emacs already works the same way, for
>> example:
>>
>>   C-\ latin-1-postfix
>>   a
>>
>> displays a list of possible accents to select.
>
> Yes this almost solves the problem. Just that in case of press-and-hold,
> the user doesn’t have to goto another key. The combination is the main
> key and arrow-key to select the correct accent.

There are some options in 'quail-define-package', and I recall
that some of them can enable more interactive selection among
displayed variants, but I don't remember what input methods used
such options, and what options of 'quail-define-package' can do this,
maybe 'SHOW-LAYOUT', but I'm not sure.

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