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

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <s3tu0pxld16.fsf@magellan.suse.de>, Mike FABIAN <mfabian@suse.de> writes:
> 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?

You can use the environment variable M17NDIR to specify a
per-user m17n-db directory.  For instance, you can set it to
~/.m17n, and put in that directory, mdb.dir that contains
this line: 
(input-method t latn-pre "latn-pre.mim")
and your version of latn-pre.mim.

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Ken'ichi HANDA
handa@m17n.org