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Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 09:29:17 -0400
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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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