[SCIM] Re: Custom Keyboard Layout Editor/Interpreter for SCIM

[Mike FABIAN]

Yukiko Bando <ybando@k6.dion.ne.jp> $B$5$s$O=q$-$^$7$?(B:

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> BTW, I tried replacing apostrophe and grave with semicolon and colon (which 
> are easier to type on Japanese keyboards) in latn-pre.mim and it worked!  It 
> doesn't seem extremely difficult to edit existing mim files, but I still hope 
> someone will make a GUI tool for such purpose and also to create simple M17N 
> input methods from scratch some day in the future... :)    

Maybe it would be possible to read .mim files not only from
/usr/share/m17n but also from the users home directory ~/.m17n/*.mim ?

As Yukiko says, editing the .mim files is rather easy, i.e. if a
user wants his own special version of latn-pre.mim it might be nice
if she can just copy it th ~/.m17n and edit a little bit. Or, if
a user doesn't like the key binding in ja-anthy.mim she could
copy the file and change the key bindings a little bit.

Would that make sense or is that a silly idea?

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