Re: xemacs / termcap ?

[Yutaka KAWASE <yutaka@mailhost.net>]

Hans,

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   From: hgweigand@wiesbaden.netsurf.de (Hans-Guenter Weigand)
   Subject: Re: xemacs / termcap ?
   Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 18:05:17 +0200
   Message-ID: <1duccq8.1qsfmol1l6xvc2M@[192.168.1.1]>

> > But I noticed that I cannot use canna, a Japanese imput method, on the
> > fresh xemacs-20.4 so, I added a line to Makefile like...
> > 
> >     CONFIGURE_ARGS= ${GCCARCH} \
> >                   ${CONFIG_MULE} \
> >                   --with-canna \ # <-- this line I add
> > 
> > Now I am re-making. I think this goes well. I have already installed
> > canna server.
> 
> Good idea, I may check whether this breaks anything or not, so we may
> enable canna by default. There are various input methods for XEmacs. Do
> you know which one is the most important or most used?

I would say Wnn/Canna/Skk are the 3 major imput methods for Japanese
characters. Skk would not be as popular as the other two.

There are two type of Wnn. One is Wnn version 6.* which is a
commercial product and the other is Wnn 4.* which freely
distributed. Canna and Skk are free softwares.

If you could work on XEmacs port fro Japanese imput method, Wnn would
be easier just because there is already a prot for Wnn-4.2 itself. ;-)

Also, one thing that I think important is,

XEmacs-20.4 seems not show us characters other than us-ascii on tty.
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So I would be very happy if you could port XEmacs-21.1.3.

I have build couple of XEmacs'es and the result was as follows.

On a PC running OpenBSD-2.5...

   with XEmacs-21.1.3 on X,   I could     read Japanese text.
   with XEmacs-21.1.3 on tty, I could NOT read Japanese text.
   with XEmacs-20.4   on X,   I could     read Japanese text.
   with XEmacs-20.4   on tty, I could NOT read Japanese text.

On a PC running linux-2.0.36...

   with XEmacs-21.1.3 on X,   I could     read Japanese text.
   with XEmacs-21.1.3 on tty, I could     read Japanese text.
   with XEmacs-20.4   on X,   I could     read Japanese text.
   with XEmacs-20.4   on tty, I could NOT read Japanese text.

JFYI, I build jvim on OpenBSD-2.5 using ports/japanese/jvim-wnn4 and I
could finally read/write Japanese on OpenBSD box, although I wish I
could do it with any version of emacs.

>From now, I would have to learn more about vi / vim / Wnn to be able
to read/write Japanese fluently ;-)

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