From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Mark H. David" <mhd@yv.org>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Is there a sane way to type Hebrew with nikud with Emacs 25/Mac?
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2016 05:42:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83h96fhysl.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1481151750.3863289.811957801.45609D8B@webmail.messagingengine.com> (mhd@yv.org)
> From: "Mark H. David" <mhd@yv.org>
> Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2016 15:02:30 -0800
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> It's similarly a bummer on GNU/Linux with a PC keyboard.
>
> Straightforward way to try it:
> Add Hebrew language keyboard in your modern GUI in the GNU/Linux-y way.
> Fire up emacs, go to scratch buffer
> Switch keyboard to "he" (Hebrew keyboard)
> Type keys with caps: ASDF - 4 Hebrew letters show up: שדגכ
> Type ctrl+b, meaning backward-char. Doesn't work, you get: "C-נ is undefined".
>
> נ is the Hebrew character you get when you type the keycap B.
>
> I tried this on Emacs 24. I'm sure it's the same on Emacs 25 in this respect.
It's not an Emacs issue, it's how keyboard works on X. (Ironically,
MS-Windows gets it right, so keys with Ctrl modifier are still ASCII
when I switch the keyboard to Hebrew.)
May I suggest to try one of the Emacs's own built-in Hebrew input
methods instead?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-08 3:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-06 20:32 Is there a sane way to type Hebrew with nikud with Emacs 25/Mac? Mark H. David
2016-12-06 21:10 ` David Caldwell
2016-12-06 22:04 ` Mark H. David
2016-12-07 20:54 ` Richard Stallman
2016-12-07 23:02 ` Mark H. David
2016-12-08 3:42 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-12-12 21:09 ` Mark H. David
2016-12-13 3:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-13 21:27 ` Juri Linkov
2016-12-13 23:41 ` Mark H. David
2016-12-14 22:05 ` Juri Linkov
2016-12-08 20:36 ` Richard Stallman
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