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Emacs Japanese Input

If you ever find yourself stuck relying on the IME built-into Emacs (rather than the IME native to your OS), here are the essential key strokes you’ll need to know.

  • C-\:  toggle input mode (ime on or off)
  • C-h:  shows conversion options if used when in conversion mode
  • SPC: transform input to kanji, or show the next conversion candidate
  • DEL:  abort conversion
  • C-n: show the next conversion candidate
  • C-p: show the previous conversion candidate
  • C-o: lengthen conversion bunsetsu
  • C-i, TAB: shorten conversion bunsetsu
  • Shift-k:  toggle between hiragana and katakana
  • qq:  toggle between alphabet and kanji modes
  • qz:  turn on zenkaku alphabet mode
  • qh:  turn off zenkaku alphabet mode

Also useful:

  • C-x RET l:  set the buffer language environment
  • C-x RET C-\:  select the input method

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2 Responses to “Emacs Japanese Input”

  1. BKB Says:
    August 19th, 2008 at 12:06 am

    On Windows I can get the Windows IME when I use Emacs, but on Linux I get the builtin one. Do you know how to change Linux Emacs so that it uses another input method? I’m using SCIM on Linux.

  2. nurikabe Says:
    August 19th, 2008 at 10:11 pm

    Does setting XMODIFIERS=’@im=SCIM’ work?

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