This tool manages macOS input sources from the command line, ideal for integration with vim and emacs(e.g. sis).

macism's main advantage over other similar tools is that it can reliably select CJKV(Chinese/Japanese/Korean/Vietnamese) input source, while with other tools (such as input-source-switcher, im-select from smartim, swim), when you switch to CJKV input source, you will see that the input source icon has already changed in the menu bar, but unless you activate other applications and then switch back, the input source is actually still the same as before.

You can get the executable in any of the following ways:

• Install from brew

  brew tap laishulu/homebrew
  brew install macism
  

• compile by yourself

  git clone https://github.com/laishulu/macism
  cd macism
  swiftc macism.swift
  

• download the executable directly from github

1. macism will output the current input source
2. macism SOME_INPUT_SOURCE_ID will select to SOME_INPUT_SOURCE_ID.
3. Add an extra option --noKeyboardOnly to command pattern #2 will also enable none-keyboard input sources.

• LuSrackhall for his key insight in this discussion. Based on this insight, macism upgraded from v1 to v2.