hello
can you hear me yes I can awesome
all right so we have a couple minutes
and
uh it seems a couple questions as well
so take it away
okay I won't share my screen unless
needed um
looks like question one advantages
advantages of using Emacs input methods
over something like x compose
well there's a there's a couple things
there one is
um Emacs is cross platform so
writing this input mode for Emacs means
if I do end up using
a non-free operating system I can still
use Emacs I can still type
in the way that I would like to um
I did look in I don't I actually don't
know what x compose is
I tried looking for it on my system I
could not find it anywhere
I did actually go and figure out how to
write a
x11 keyboard layout so that's also
available
in the repository that has the Emacs
package as well
and it is handy to be able to have that
so I can type in
other applications besides Emacs
but the main advantages for Emacs was it
was actually
much easier to discover and much easier
to
manipulate and get feedback you know as
I was developing it like I could just
evaluate the coil package
try it out and see if it works when I
was trying to do the x11 inputs I'd have
to log out
read and and relog in again to get
things read and
it was you know it doesn't have that
beautiful
interactivity the way that Emacs does so
for me it was a good place to start um
especially because
I had never done anything like this
before like developing
something that felt low level you know
like a keyboard input
I hope that answers your question
question two can you give us a demo of
you typing in
either lakota and input method sure
um share my screen now
of course I always have to select which
one
okay so control backslash opens the
input modes
although when you've selected one you
have it already so
uh yeah wash day
that's it is good washed it so this is
the suggested lakota
orthography or otherwise known as the
standard lakota orthography
another benefit of doing it in Emacs is
that I now get
completion on lakota words so
so I'm you know it's a second language
for me and as I'm trying to learn it
it's actually
quite useful to have company mode as a
bonus um
for typing things
I can show the other orthography so to
to get another one you do
the universal input control u backslash
and I can try the white hat orthography
oh yeah lost
what's the command for that you are now
unmuted
yeah okay you are now muted
thank you
you are now unmuted you are now muted
oops not quite as slick as that other
demo we saw the other day
okay so control u control backslash I
can select a different
input method um from the default so if I
select white hat I can type
wash day like that
so it's a different orthography here um
I won't go too deeply into that it's
hard to think and talk and type all at
the same time
um I hope that's good
I'm happy to do more maybe I'll put up a
video of of demonstrating that sometimes
why did I just go ahead
um time about for like one more question
okay on live yeah thank you
um well real quick did I write the
company back end
no that's just the automatic company
completion based on other things I've
typed
why did I decide on the the input method
that's a good question um I just did it
based on
my experience um in the x input mode you
type it first
and honestly I would love any input on
what's more
usual for these type of combining
letters
and really what I would like to do is
kind of confer with other
people from the tribe and talk to elders
and see
what feels right what what is the best
way to go about this
I don't think that it should be an
individual decision and in this case it
is because
I created it for myself but now that
I've released it to the world I think
there's more to think about
okay I guess I have to go now so we can
get to the next talk
thank you for listening okay
thank you very much grant for your
awesome talk and for
the questions and answers