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+;;; robin.el --- yet another input method (smaller than quail)
+
+;; Copyright (C) 2003, 2004, 2005
+;; National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
+;; Registration Number: H15PRO 110
+
+;; Author: TAKAHASHI Naoto <ntakahas@m17n.org>
+;; Keywords: mule, multilingual, input method
+
+;; This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+;; modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
+;; published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at
+;; your option) any later version.
+
+;; This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+;; WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
+;; General Public License for more details.
+
+;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+;; along with this program; see the file COPYING. If not, write to
+;; the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
+;; Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
+
+;;; Comentary:
+
+;; Functionalities
+;; ---------------
+
+;; Robin is a new input method for GNU Emacs. It has three
+;; functionalities:
+
+;; 1. It serves as a simple input method. When the user types an ASCII
+;; key sequence, robin converts it into a string. This functionality
+;; is most likely used to input non-ASCII characters.
+
+;; 2. It converts existing buffer substring into another string.
+;; This functionality is similar to the 1. above, but the input is
+;; buffer substring rather than key strokes.
+
+;; 3. It offers reverse conversion. Each character produced by a
+;; robin rule can hold the original ASCII sequence as a
+;; char-code-property.
+
+
+;; How to define conversion rules
+;; ------------------------------
+
+;; Each conversion rule belongs to a robin package. A robin package is
+;; identified by a string called package name. Use robin-define-package
+;; to define a robin package.
+
+;; (robin-define-package NAME DOCTSTRING
+;; (INPUT1 OUPUT1)
+;; (INPUT2 OUPUT2)
+;; ...)
+
+;; NAME is a string identifying the robin package. It often starts with a
+;; language name and followed by a method name. For example,
+;; french-postfix, greek-prefix, etc.
+
+;; DOCSTRING is a documentation string for the robin method.
+
+;; Each INPUTn is a string. It represents a transliteration of the
+;; corresponding OUTPUTn.
+
+;; Each OUTPUTn is a string or a character that is to be inserted as the
+;; result of conversion.
+
+;; Neither INPUT* nor OUTPUT* are evaluated. Do not use a variable or a
+;; function in those parts. Instead, use a string or character literal
+;; directly.
+
+;; If multiple rules have the same input pattern but different output
+;; patterns, only the latest definition is effective.
+
+
+;; Example
+;; -------
+
+;; (robin-define-package "german-example"
+;; "An example for German
+
+;; AE -> Ä OE -> Ö UE -> Ü
+;; ae -> ä oe -> ö ue -> ü ss -> ß
+
+;; Repeat E or S to input itself.
+
+;; AEE -> AE OEE -> OE UEE -> UE
+;; aee -> ae oee -> oe uee -> ue sss -> ss"
+
+;; ("AE" ?Ä)
+;; ("OE" ?Ö)
+;; ("UE" ?Ü)
+;; ("ae" ?ä)
+;; ("oe" ?ö)
+;; ("ue" ?ü)
+;; ("ss" ?ß)
+
+;; ("AEE" "AE")
+;; ("OEE" "OE")
+;; ("UEE" "UE")
+;; ("aee" "ae")
+;; ("oee" "oe")
+;; ("uee" "ue")
+;; ("sss" "ss")
+;; )
+
+
+;; Using robin as an input method
+;; ------------------------------
+
+;; To use a defined robin package as an input method, register it with
+;; the register-input-method function. For example,
+
+;; (register-input-method
+;; "german-example"
+;; "german"
+;; 'robin-use-package
+;; "de"
+;; "An example for German")
+
+;; The first argument is the robin package name.
+
+;; The second argument is the language environment for which this robin
+;; package is used.
+
+;; Use the symbol `robin-use-package' as the third argument.
+
+;; The fourth argument is the prompt that appears in modeline when this
+;; input method is active.
+
+;; The fifth argument is a documentation string; it may or may not be
+;; identical to the one that you specified in robin-define-package.
+
+;; You can activate the robin input method by typing
+
+;; C-u C-\ german-example RET
+
+;; Just like a quail package, only C-\ suffices for subsequent
+;; invocation.
+
+
+;; Using robin as a buffer translator
+;; ----------------------------------
+
+;; To transliterate buffer substring, use the following functions.
+
+;; (robin-convert-buffer &optional name)
+
+;; Convert the content of current buffer using a robin package.
+
+;; NAME, if given, is a string specifying a robin package. If NAME is
+;; not given or nil, the value of `robin-current-package-name' is used.
+
+;; (robin-convert-region begin end &optional name)
+
+;; Convert the region using a robin package.
+
+;; NAME, if given, is a string specifying a robin package. If NAME is
+;; not given or nil, the value of `robin-current-package-name' is used.
+
+
+;; Reverse conversion
+;; ------------------
+
+;; If the output pattern defined in a robin rule is a character, robin
+;; gives to the character a char-code-property whose key is the symbol
+;; representation of the robin package name and whose value is the input
+;; pattern of that character. For example, with the "german-example"
+;; definition above,
+
+;; (get-char-code-property ?Ä 'german-example) => "AE"
+
+;; etc.
+
+;; If you do not want to assign a char-code-property to a character, use
+;; a string of length one as the output pattern, e.g.
+
+;; (robin-define-package "german-example2"
+;; "Another example for German."
+
+;; ("AE" "Ä")
+;; ("OE" "Ö")
+;; ...)
+
+;; Then
+
+;; (get-char-code-property ?Ä 'german-example2) => nil
+
+;; etc.
+
+;; If multiple input patterns in a robin package generate the same
+;; character, the lastly used input pattern is given as the value of the
+;; char-code-property.
+
+;; There are two functions for reverse conversion.
+
+;; (robin-invert-buffer &optional name)
+
+;; Apply reverse conversion to the content of current buffer. NAME, if
+;; given, is a string specifying a robin package. If NAME is not given
+;; or nil, the value of `robin-current-package-name' is used.
+
+;; (robin-invert-region begin end &optional name)
+
+;; Apply reverse conversion to the region. NAME, if given, is a string
+;; specifying a robin package. If NAME is not given or nil, the value of
+;; `robin-current-package-name' is used.
+
+
+;; Modifying an existing rule
+;; --------------------------
+
+;; Use the robin-modify-package function to modify a rule already defined
+;; in a Robin package.
+
+;; (robin-modify-package name input output)
+
+;; Change a rule in an already defined Robin package.
+;; NAME is the string specifying a robin package.
+;; INPUT is a string that specifies the input pattern.
+;; OUTPUT is either a character or a string to be generated.
+
+
+;; The name of the game
+;; --------------------
+
+;; As stated in Murphy's law, it took longer than expected to develop the
+;; very first version of Japanese input subsystem in NEmacs (Nihongo
+;; Emacs). So the subsystem was named "TAMAGO", which is an acronym of
+;; "TAkusan Matasete GOmennasai" (Sorry to have kept you waiting so
+;; long). "Tamago" as a Japanese word means "egg", so the word "egg" was
+;; also used for related filenames and function names.
+
+;; Since it was designed to input CJK characters, Egg was rather big as a
+;; subsystem. So later in Mule (Multilingual Enhancement to GNU Emacs),
+;; we designed and implemented a smaller input subsystem. We had to give
+;; it a name. "So, what's smaller than an egg?" "A quail egg, of
+;; course." Therefore it was named "quail".
+
+;; As time went by, quail became more and more complicated. That
+;; tendency was inevitable as long as we support CJK input. However, if
+;; we can limit ourselves to non-CJK characters, a much simpler
+;; transliteration mechanism suffices. So I wrote "robin", whose name
+;; was chosen because a robin is smaller than a quail. I could name it
+;; "hummingbird" or "nightingale", but those spellings seemed too long.
+
+
+;;; Code:
+
+(defvar robin-package-alist nil
+ "List of robin packages.
+A robin pacakge is of the form (NAME DOCSTRING &rest RULES).
+NAME is a string specifying a particular robin package.
+DOCSTRING is a documentation string for the robin package.
+
+RULE is of the form (KEY OUTPUT &rest rules).
+KEY is a string.
+OUTPUT is a character or a string.
+For example, if you evaluate the following,
+
+(robin-define-package \"test\" \"Uppercase input characters\"
+ (\"a\" \"A\")
+ (\"ab\" \"AB\")
+ (\"ac\" \"AC\")
+ (\"acd\" \"ACD\")
+ (\"ace\" \"ACE\")
+ (\"b\" \"B\"))
+
+this robin package will be the following.
+
+ (\"test\" \"Uppercase input characters\"
+ (?a \"A\"
+ (?b \"AB\")
+ (?c \"AC\"
+ (?d \"ACD\")
+ (?e \"ACE\")))
+ (?b \"B\"))
+")
+
+;;;###autoload
+(defmacro robin-define-package (name docstring &rest rules)
+ "Define a robin package.
+
+NAME is the string of this robin package.
+DOCSTRING is the documentation string of this robin package.
+Each RULE is of the form (INPUT OUTPUT) where INPUT is a string and
+OUTPUT is either a character or a string. RULES are not evaluated.
+
+If there already exists a robin package whose name is NAME, the new
+one replaces the old one."
+
+ (let ((old (assoc name robin-package-alist))
+ (new (list name "")) ; "" as a fake output
+ input output)
+ (dolist (r rules)
+ (setq input (car r)
+ output (cadr r))
+ (robin-add-rule name new input output)
+ (cond
+ ((not (stringp input))
+ (error "Bad input sequence %S" r))
+ ((characterp output)
+ (put-char-code-property output (intern name) input))
+ ((not (stringp output))
+ (error "Bad output pattern %S" r))))
+ (setcar (cdr new) docstring) ; replace "" above with real docstring
+ (if old
+ (setcdr old (cdr new))
+ (setq robin-package-alist
+ (cons new robin-package-alist)))
+ `(setq robin-package-alist ',robin-package-alist)))
+
+;;;###autoload
+(defun robin-modify-package (name input output)
+ "Change a rule in an already defined robin package.
+
+NAME is the string specifying a robin package.
+INPUT is a string that specifies the input pattern.
+OUTPUT is either a character or a string to be generated."
+
+ (let ((tree (assoc name robin-package-alist))
+ docstring)
+ (if (not tree)
+ (error "No such robin package")
+ (setq docstring (cadr tree))
+ (setcar (cdr tree) "")
+ (robin-add-rule name tree input output)
+ (setcar (cdr tree) docstring)
+ (if (characterp output)
+ (put-char-code-property output (intern name) input))))
+ output)
+
+(defun robin-add-rule (name tree input output)
+ "Add translation rule (INPUT OUTPUT) to TREE whose name is NAME.
+Internal use only."
+
+ (let* ((head (aref input 0))
+ (branch (assoc head tree))
+ (sofar (cadr tree)))
+
+ (if (= (length input) 1)
+ (if branch
+
+ ;; A definition already exists for this input.
+ (progn
+ (setcar (cdr branch) output)
+ ;; Cancel char-code-property for old definition.
+ (when (characterp output)
+ (put-char-code-property output (intern name) nil)))
+
+ ;; New definition for this input.
+ (setcdr (last tree) (list (list head output))))
+
+ (unless branch
+ (if (characterp sofar)
+ (setq sofar (char-to-string sofar)))
+ (setq branch
+ (list head
+ (concat sofar
+ (char-to-string head))))
+ (setcdr (last tree) (list branch)))
+
+ (robin-add-rule name branch (substring input 1) output))))
+
+;;; Interactive use
+
+(defvar robin-mode nil
+ "If non-nil, `robin-input-method' is active.")
+(make-variable-buffer-local 'robin-mode)
+
+(defvar robin-current-package-name nil
+ "String representing the name of the current robin package.
+Nil means no packages is selected.")
+(make-variable-buffer-local 'robin-current-package-name)
+
+;;;###autoload
+(defun robin-use-package (name)
+ "Start using robin package NAME, which is a string."
+
+ (let ((package (assoc name robin-package-alist)))
+ (unless package
+ (error "No such robin package"))
+ (setq robin-current-package-name name)
+ (robin-activate)))
+
+(defun robin-inactivate ()
+ "Inactivate robin input method."
+
+ (interactive)
+ (robin-activate -1))
+
+(defun robin-activate (&optional arg)
+ "Activate robin input method.
+
+With ARG, activate robin input method iff ARG is positive.
+
+While this input method is active, the variable
+`input-method-function' is bound to the function `robin-input-method'."
+ (if (and arg
+ (< (prefix-numeric-value arg) 0))
+
+ ;; inactivate robin input method.
+ (unwind-protect
+ (progn
+ (setq robin-mode nil)
+ (setq describe-current-input-method-function nil)
+ (run-hooks 'robin-inactivate-hook))
+ (kill-local-variable 'input-method-function))
+
+ ;; activate robin input method.
+ (setq robin-mode t
+ describe-current-input-method-function 'robin-help
+ inactivate-current-input-method-function 'robin-inactivate)
+ (if (eq (selected-window) (minibuffer-window))
+ (add-hook 'minibuffer-exit-hook 'robin-exit-from-minibuffer))
+ (run-hooks 'input-method-activate-hook
+ 'robin-activate-hook)
+ (set (make-local-variable 'input-method-function)
+ 'robin-input-method)))
+
+(defun robin-exit-from-minibuffer ()
+ (inactivate-input-method)
+ (if (<= (minibuffer-depth) 1)
+ (remove-hook 'minibuffer-exit-hook 'robin-exit-from-minibuffer)))
+
+(defun robin-input-method (key)
+ "Interpret typed key sequence and insert into buffer."
+
+ (if (or buffer-read-only
+ overriding-terminal-local-map
+ overriding-local-map)
+ (list key)
+
+ (let ((echo-keystrokes 0)
+ (input-method-function nil)
+ (start (point))
+ (tree (cddr (assoc robin-current-package-name robin-package-alist)))
+ branch
+ output)
+
+ (while (setq branch (assq key tree))
+ (delete-region start (point))
+ (insert (setq output (cadr branch)))
+ (setq tree (cddr branch))
+ (if tree
+ (setq key (read-event))
+ (setq key nil)))
+
+ (if (null output)
+ ;; body of the `while' above was not executed
+ (list key)
+ (delete-region start (point))
+ (if key
+ (setq unread-command-events (list key)))
+ (if (stringp output)
+ (string-to-list output)
+ (list output))))))
+
+(defun robin-help ()
+ "Display the docstring of the current robin package."
+
+ (interactive)
+ (let ((buf (get-buffer-create "*Robin Help*"))
+ (doc (cadr (assoc robin-current-package-name robin-package-alist))))
+ (set-buffer buf)
+ (erase-buffer)
+ (insert doc)
+ (goto-char (point-min))
+ (display-buffer buf)))
+
+;;; Batch mode
+
+(defun robin-convert-buffer (&optional name)
+ "Convert the content of current buffer using a robin package.
+NAME, if given, is a string specifying a robin package. If NAME
+is not given or nil, the value of `robin-current-package-name' is
+used."
+
+ (interactive "*")
+ (robin-convert-region (point-min) (point-max) name))
+
+(defun robin-convert-region (begin end &optional name)
+ "Convert the region using a robin package.
+NAME, if given, is a string specifying a robin package. If NAME
+is not given or nil, the value of `robin-current-package-name' is
+used."
+
+ (interactive "*r")
+ (or name
+ (setq name robin-current-package-name)
+ (error "No robin package specified"))
+
+ (let ((tree (assoc name robin-package-alist)))
+ (unless tree
+ (error "No such robin package"))
+
+ (save-excursion
+ (save-restriction
+ (narrow-to-region begin end)
+ (goto-char (point-min))
+ (while (not (eobp))
+ (robin-convert-region-internal tree))))))
+
+(defun robin-convert-region-internal (tree)
+ "Apply a robin rule defined in TREE to the current point.
+Use the longest match method to select a rule."
+
+ (let ((begin (point))
+ end branch)
+ (while (setq branch (assq (following-char) tree))
+ (setq tree branch)
+ (forward-char 1))
+
+ (setq end (point))
+ (if (= begin end)
+ ;; no matching rule found; leave it as it is
+ (forward-char 1)
+ ;; replace the string
+ (goto-char begin)
+ (insert (cadr tree))
+ (delete-char (- end begin)))))
+
+;; for backward compatibility
+
+(fset 'robin-transliterate-region 'robin-convert-region)
+(fset 'robin-transliterate-buffer 'robin-convert-buffer)
+
+;;; Reverse conversion
+
+(defun robin-invert-buffer (&optional name)
+ "Apply reverse conversion to the content of current buffer.
+NAME, if given, is a string specifying a robin package. If NAME
+is not given or nil, the value of `robin-current-package-name' is
+used."
+
+ (interactive "*")
+ (robin-invert-region (point-min) (point-max) name))
+
+(defun robin-invert-region (begin end &optional name)
+ "Apply reverse conversion to the region.
+NAME, if given, is a string specifying a robin package. If NAME
+is not given or nil, the value of `robin-current-package-name' is
+used."
+
+ (interactive "*r")
+ (or name
+ (setq name robin-current-package-name)
+ (error "No robin package specified"))
+
+ (setq name (intern name))
+ (let (str)
+ (save-restriction
+ (narrow-to-region begin end)
+ (goto-char (point-min))
+ (while (not (eobp))
+ (if (not (setq str (get-char-code-property (following-char) name)))
+ (forward-char 1)
+ (insert str)
+ (delete-char 1))))))
+
+(provide 'robin)
+
+;;; Local Variables:
+;;; coding: utf-8-emacs
+;;; End:
+
+;;; robin.el ends here