Uim FEP

About

uim-fep is the bridge for inputting text on console applications.

From README

uim-fep is a FEP (Front End Processer).

How to USE

Set the environment variable LANG. You can use also LC_ALL or LC_CTYPE.

Ex.1 example using sh

$ LANG=ja_JP.eucjp ; export LANG

Ex.2 example using csh

% setenv LANG ja_JP.utf8

and exec uim-fep.

$ uim-fep

If you want to know the key binds, see the manual of uim.

Environment variables

• TERM

  Set the terminal name in terminfo/termcap. You must set this variable correctly otherwise fail to use uim-fep.

• SHELL

  Set the program name after uim-fep execed. You can specify both relative path and absolute path.

• UIM_FEP

  Set the name of conversion engine. E.G. anthy, skk, ...

• LC_ALL LC_CTYPE LANG

  Detecting the language and encoding in accordance with this order.

• TMP

  The directory to put socket which is for communicating with uim-fep-tick. If this variable not defined, /tmp will be used.

• WINDOW

  This is shown when you use backtick

• UIM_FEP_PID

  PID (Process ID) of uim-fep.

• UIM_FEP_GETMODE

  The file where the mode of uim-fep is written

• UIM_FEP_SETMODE

  If you write the mode to this file, uim-fep's mode will change.

  $ echo 0 > $UIM_FEP_SETMODE

• LIBUIM_USER_SCM_FILE

  Set the path of the uim's configuration file. In default, uim-fep uses ~/.uim

Options

Options are given priority over environment variables if conflicted.

• -u [skk/anthy/canna/tcode/tutcode/prime]

  You can set conversion engine name.

• -s [lastline/backtick/none]

  Set the location where status line is displayed Also you can use abbreviated opsions -sl, -sb, -sn.

• -b <file>

  Set the socket path which is used by backtik. When you set relative path, its base path is $TMP or /tmp

• -w <num>

  Width of status line. This variable is used if it's in from 1 to width of terminal.

• -t <seconds>

  When you are using rsh, you may not use some keys such as "F1", "up", "<Alt>a". This problem is caused because escape-sequence doesn't be committed at once. You can solve this problem by setting the waiting time after inputting escape. In default, waiting time is zero second.

  Example: Set the waiting time 0.1 second

  $ uim-fep -t 0.1

• -e command arg1 arg2 ...

  Specify the command to run.

• -h This option show help messages.

• -v This option show version.

How to use backtick

First, put your uim-fep-tick to the directory in the PATH list. Second, in ~/.screenrc, write down following lines,

backtick 0 0 0 uim-fep-tick
hardstatus alwayslastline "%0`"

last, exec uim-fep in the window of screen with -s option,

$ uim-fep -s backtick

• Options of uim-fep-tick

  • -s <file>

    You can specify the socket path. When you set relative path, its base path is $TMP or /tmp

  • -h Display the help message

  • -v Display the version info of uim-fep

• You can run uim-fep by the multiple windows in screen
• uim-fep-tick is executed by screen, environment variables of screen is taken over.

Misc

• If you want to use Alt key, you should setup like follows.

  If you use mlterm, please add the following line to ~/.mlterm/main

mod_meta_mode=esc

If you use kterm, please add the following line to ~/.Xresource or ~/.Xdefaults

KTerm*EightBitInput: false

• Some terminals accept "<Alt>F1", "<Alt>right" correctly

• You cannot input "shift-space"

• cannot input "<Control>L" of prime-wide-latin-key?

• You cannot input "shift-backspace"

• If you set nr-candidate-max to 0, you can indicate many candidate at one time.

  Examples:

(define skk-nr-candidate-max 0)
(define anthy-nr-candidate-max 0)
(define prime-nr-candidate-max 0)