Please note that the up-to-date and complete user documentation is in the manual page and text files that comes with termim. This page is only a quick rewrite.
Termim creates a pseudo-tty device and starts a shell inside. Then it filters user input to provide input methods. The filtering is as minimal as possible in order not to mess up with special key escape sequences that it does not know.
Termim needs a configuration file to work. This file defines the
key sequences used to change the input method. If the environment
variable TERMIMRC is set, termim uses it as the path
to the configuration file. Else, it tries ~/.termimrc
and then a hardcoded default (maybe
/usr/local/etc/termimrc). The exact syntax of this
file is described in the manuel page. Here is a quick glance of
the possible directives:
map "name"key "sequence" set_map "name"key "sequence" string "string"key "sequence" macro key
[key...]default "name"All keys in bindings are named by the escape sequence they send to the terminal; Termim does not use terminfo nor termcap. Keys in macro are either numeric key codes (in theory in range 0–255) or named special keys (some input methods may define such keys, like the X11 Multi_key — none are currently defined).
Some of the usual escape sequences are available in the string
constants (keys escape sequences and litteral strings), including
\xXY. There is also the
\unumber\ escape sequence that stands for the
UTF-8 representation of the Unicode character
number.
The name in double quotes is the argument to the
default directive in the termimrc file
to get this input method. There is a more accurate description of
the input methods in the doc directory of the
distribution.
copy”This input method does nothing. It is intended to be used for the default mode, when the keys do what they do normally.
western”
This input method allows to type special characters of most
western languages (including French, German…) by using a compose
key. The compose key must be defined using the key
"sequence" macro compose directive.
greek”,
“cyrilic”, “hebrew”,
“thai”, “arabic”These input methods use a simple translation mechanism to allow to type several languages using a standard ASCII keyboard.
tonepy”This input method allows to type simplified Chinese using the characters pronounciation. Possible choices are shown on the status line.
japanese”This input method allow to type Japanese, including kanji.
korean” and
“hangul”These two input methods allow to type Korean, the first using translitteration, and the second imitating a Korean keyboard layout.