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From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Input method or help feature needed
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 12:26:09 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D5D8461.2000603@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1Pq9J5-0007tA-0a@fencepost.gnu.org>

On 02/17/2011 11:14 AM, Richard Stallman wrote:

> Can anyone develop a way to make it easier?

For ideas about this, I suggest looking at Wikipedia's
interface for adding unusual characters.  I find it much
easier to use Wikipedia to add a character that I don't
know, than to use Emacs.  It's easier than using
ucs-insert (which requires that I know the Unicode name,
which I typically don't) or the Turkish input method
(which I don't know how to use and lack time to learn).

For example, to add a dotless i to the start of the
Wikipedia talk page on Emacs, you visit its "Edit" page
<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Emacs&action=edit>
and do the following:

   Press the "Insert" button.  Select Latin; it displays
   lots of Latin characters.  Press the dotless i character.

That's much easier than anything Emacs offers now.
Perhaps someone who's an expert on Emacs UI code could
do something similar (or even better) for Emacs.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-02-17 20:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-17 19:14 Input method or help feature needed Richard Stallman
2011-02-17 19:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-17 19:52   ` Stephen Berman
2011-02-17 20:24     ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2011-02-18 10:53       ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-18 15:46         ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-18 20:00           ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-17 22:05     ` Stefan Monnier
2011-02-18 21:24     ` Richard Stallman
2011-02-19  7:49       ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-19  8:01         ` David Kastrup
2011-02-19  8:37           ` Miles Bader
2011-02-20  0:30           ` Richard Stallman
2011-02-20  0:29         ` Richard Stallman
2011-02-20  3:59           ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-20 21:01             ` Richard Stallman
2011-02-18 21:24   ` Richard Stallman
2011-02-17 19:31 ` Justin Lilly
2011-02-17 19:41 ` Tassilo Horn
2011-02-18 21:24   ` Richard Stallman
2011-02-19  7:30     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-19  8:18       ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-02-19  8:33         ` Miles Bader
2011-03-04  9:10     ` Kevin Rodgers
2011-02-17 20:26 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2011-02-17 22:50 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-02-18  0:09   ` Miles Bader
2011-02-18  5:13     ` Werner LEMBERG
2011-02-18  8:37     ` tomas
2011-02-18  8:41       ` Miles Bader
2011-02-18 11:27         ` Kenichi Handa
2011-02-20  8:27         ` tomas
2011-02-20 10:41           ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-20 11:16             ` David Kastrup
2011-02-20 21:01             ` Richard Stallman
2011-02-20 21:30               ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-21  2:53                 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-02-21 22:35                 ` Richard Stallman
2011-02-21  0:59               ` Kenichi Handa
2011-02-21  7:02                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-21  7:47                   ` Kenichi Handa
2011-02-21  8:25                     ` Miles Bader
2011-02-21  8:29                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-21 11:14                       ` Kenichi Handa
2011-02-21 12:25                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-22  0:55                           ` Kenichi Handa
2011-02-22  1:23                             ` Miles Bader
2011-02-21 22:36                         ` Richard Stallman
2011-02-21 22:36                 ` Richard Stallman
2011-02-18  8:43       ` David Kastrup
2011-02-20  8:30         ` tomas
2011-02-20 10:45           ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-18 21:25   ` Richard Stallman
2011-02-19  7:52     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-20  0:29       ` Richard Stallman
2011-02-20  7:43         ` James Cloos
2011-02-20 21:01           ` Richard Stallman
2011-02-20 22:45             ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2011-02-21 22:35               ` Richard Stallman
2011-02-21 22:35               ` Richard Stallman
2011-02-22  6:05                 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2011-02-22 20:25                   ` Richard Stallman
2011-02-19 19:26     ` James Cloos
2011-02-20 21:00       ` Richard Stallman
2011-02-20 21:33         ` Drew Adams
2011-02-21 22:36           ` Richard Stallman
2011-02-21 22:51             ` Drew Adams
2011-02-22 20:25               ` Richard Stallman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-02-18 10:39 Андрей Парамонов

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