Subject: Re: bug#5990: 23.1; Cannot type the word 買います

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2021 10:34:11 +0200

Naohiro Aota <[email-masked]> writes:

> To get "買います", we need explicitly set the conversion length to 2
> with C-o/C-i. It can be reproduced in a code like this:
>
> (let ((kkc-current-key "かいます"))
>   (kkc-lookup-key 2)
>   kkc-current-conversions)
> (1 "買い" "書い" "描い" "飼い" "画い" "欠い" "掻い" "嗅い" "交い" "畫い" "缺い" ...)
> ;;  `-- Here, we have the "買います" result

Ah, I see.

> IMHO, implementing such complex algorithm is out of scope for leim. It
> still can be a "rescue" tool even with the simple algorithm if you can
> set a proper conversion length. And, we anyway use other IM like mozc,
> SKK, tc.el.

So it this basically working as designed, and the bug report should be
closed?

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