Boiling egg is a front-end of Egg (Tamago) V4. You can convert roma-ji to kana without toggling input method. Put the expression below into your ~/.emacs. (autoload 'boiling-rK-trans "boiling-egg" "romaji-kanji conversion" t) (autoload 'boiling-rhkR-trans "boiling-egg" "romaji-kana conversion" t) (global-set-key "\C-o" 'boiling-rK-trans) (global-set-key "\eo" 'boiling-rhkR-trans) WWW: http://www.gcd.org/sengoku/boiling-egg/