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hello

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can you hear me yes I can awesome

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all right so we have a couple minutes

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and

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uh it seems a couple questions as well

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so take it away

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okay I won't share my screen unless

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needed um

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looks like question one advantages

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advantages of using Emacs input methods

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over something like x compose

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well there's a there's a couple things

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there one is

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um Emacs is cross platform so

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writing this input mode for Emacs means

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if I do end up using

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a non-free operating system I can still

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use Emacs I can still type

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in the way that I would like to um

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I did look in I don't I actually don't

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know what x compose is

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I tried looking for it on my system I

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could not find it anywhere

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I did actually go and figure out how to

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write a

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x11 keyboard layout so that's also

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available

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in the repository that has the Emacs

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package as well

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and it is handy to be able to have that

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so I can type in

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other applications besides Emacs

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but the main advantages for Emacs was it

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was actually

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much easier to discover and much easier

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to

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manipulate and get feedback you know as

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I was developing it like I could just

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evaluate the coil package

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try it out and see if it works when I

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was trying to do the x11 inputs I'd have

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to log out

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read and and relog in again to get

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things read and

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it was you know it doesn't have that

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beautiful

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interactivity the way that Emacs does so

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for me it was a good place to start um

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especially because

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I had never done anything like this

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before like developing

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something that felt low level you know

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like a keyboard input

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I hope that answers your question

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question two can you give us a demo of

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you typing in

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either lakota and input method sure

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um share my screen now

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of course I always have to select which

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one

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okay so control backslash opens the

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input modes

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although when you've selected one you

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have it already so

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uh yeah wash day

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that's it is good washed it so this is

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the suggested lakota

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orthography or otherwise known as the

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standard lakota orthography

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another benefit of doing it in Emacs is

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that I now get

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completion on lakota words so

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so I'm you know it's a second language

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for me and as I'm trying to learn it

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it's actually

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quite useful to have company mode as a

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bonus um

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for typing things

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I can show the other orthography so to

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to get another one you do

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the universal input control u backslash

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and I can try the white hat orthography

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oh yeah lost

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what's the command for that you are now

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unmuted

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yeah okay you are now muted

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thank you

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you are now unmuted you are now muted

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oops not quite as slick as that other

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demo we saw the other day

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okay so control u control backslash I

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can select a different

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input method um from the default so if I

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select white hat I can type

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wash day like that

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so it's a different orthography here um

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I won't go too deeply into that it's

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hard to think and talk and type all at

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the same time

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um I hope that's good

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I'm happy to do more maybe I'll put up a

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video of of demonstrating that sometimes

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why did I just go ahead

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um time about for like one more question

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okay on live yeah thank you

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um well real quick did I write the

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company back end

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no that's just the automatic company

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completion based on other things I've

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typed

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why did I decide on the the input method

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that's a good question um I just did it

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based on

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my experience um in the x input mode you

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type it first

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and honestly I would love any input on

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what's more

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usual for these type of combining

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letters

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and really what I would like to do is

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kind of confer with other

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people from the tribe and talk to elders

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and see

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what feels right what what is the best

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way to go about this

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I don't think that it should be an

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individual decision and in this case it

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is because

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I created it for myself but now that

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I've released it to the world I think

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there's more to think about

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okay I guess I have to go now so we can

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get to the next talk

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thank you for listening okay

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thank you very much grant for your

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awesome talk and for

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the questions and answers