Mail Archives: cygwin/2009/08/05/09:29:33
On 8/5/2009 4:16 AM, Harald Joerg wrote:
> Very rarely I need to type one or two japanese characters in my
> emacs, and I recall that I did it with LEIM and set-input-method quite
> easily. However, in my current installation, emacs says that LEIM
> isn't installed.
>
> The cygwin installer says:
> LEIM is part of emacs package now.
>
> The directory where LEIM used to be, /usr/share/21.2/leim/, exists but
> is empty, both on my machine and on
> <http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=emacs%2Femacs-21.2-12>.
>
> There's no LEIM at all in
> <http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=emacs-el%2Femacs-el-21.2-12>
> but the title says "(including LEIM)".
>
> As a workaround, I fetched emacs-leim from the web, extracted the
> tar.bz2 and symlinked the contents to /usr/share/21.2/leim. Now
> set-input-method works as expected. But I doubt that this is how it
> ought to be.
>
> * Is there something wrong with my installation (old installation,
> carried over from another machine)?
No. There was confusion a couple of years ago when it looked like emacs
was going to be updated to version 22.1 (which did include leim). At
that point emacs-leim was declared obsolete. Unfortunately, the
emacs-22.1 build turned out to be unstable, but emacs-leim was never
reinstated.
> * Would a switch to emacs and emacs-el 23.0.92 be the recommended
> solution (emacs-el 23.0.92 apparently contains LEIM)?
Yes. BTW, emacs-el is irrelevant; it just contains the library source
files (*.el). The byte-compiled libraries (*.elc), including leim, are
in the emacs package.
Ken
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