Re: Changing language input method by addressee

2018-03-09 Thread Bob Newell
I imagine you could use set-language-environment and set-language-environment-hook to do what you mention (but of course I've not tried it!). -- Bob Newell Honolulu, Hawai`i * Via Gnus/BBDB/Org/Emacs/Linux * ___ info-gnus-english mailing list info-gnu

Re: Changing language input method by addressee

2018-03-09 Thread Bob Newell
Aloha everyone, Just for completeness, here's the final result, and it's much much better. In BBDB just 'i' a 'language' field for those correspondents with whom you correspond in whatever language, and then enter the input mode, like 'french-postfix'. As long as you're using message mode and BBDB

Re: Changing language input method by addressee

2018-03-09 Thread Tim Landscheidt
Bob Newell wrote: >> A better solution might involve giving your BBDB contacts a "language" >> xfield, holding values like "fr" or "de". Then in the >> message-setup-hook just retrieve the actual BBDB contact, check if it >> has a language xfield, and set the input method accordingly. > This is

Re: Changing language input method by addressee

2018-03-09 Thread Bob Newell
Eric Abrahamsen writes: > A better solution might involve giving your BBDB contacts a "language" > xfield, holding values like "fr" or "de". Then in the > message-setup-hook just retrieve the actual BBDB contact, check if it > has a language xfield, and set the input method accordingly. This is

Re: Changing language input method by addressee

2018-03-08 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
Bob Newell writes: > Aloha everyone, > > I mostly correspond in English, but I have a few French correspondents > and a couple of German ones. So I wanted to automatically enter French > input mode or German input mode respectively when writing to one of > those folks. After an embarrassing amoun