From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Entering Unicode characters Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 05:34:11 +0200 Message-ID: <83y4bd10b0.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83twmkkv16.fsf@gnu.org> <83h9i13aly.fsf@gnu.org> <8337tl2zc6.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1453779241 5994 80.91.229.3 (26 Jan 2016 03:34:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 03:34:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ahyatt@gmail.com, johnw@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca To: Vivek Dasmohapatra Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 26 04:34:00 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aNuOG-0004ln-20 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Jan 2016 04:34:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41682 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aNuOF-0006HR-5R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Jan 2016 22:33:59 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56048) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aNuOB-0006HK-OF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jan 2016 22:33:56 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aNuOA-0000Am-Ud for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jan 2016 22:33:55 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:50619) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aNuO7-0000A4-6j; Mon, 25 Jan 2016 22:33:51 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1107 helo=HOME-C4E4A596F7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aNuO0-0000Gh-1Y; Mon, 25 Jan 2016 22:33:44 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Vivek Dasmohapatra on Tue, 26 Jan 2016 01:24:31 +0000 (GMT)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:198829 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 01:24:31 +0000 (GMT) > From: Vivek Dasmohapatra > cc: rms@gnu.org, ahyatt@gmail.com, johnw@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, > emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > AltGr " e? (You can use "C-h l" to find the answer.) Does it at all > > know that you pressed AltGr and not the left Alt (i.e. Meta) key? > > I wasn't proposing AltGr, merely explaining what xcompose used. > > > And in any case, how is the above different from Emacs input methods? > > It isn't. I merely meant that there is already a widespread mechanism > with a set of defined mnemonics which could be imported wholesale. I see, thanks for explaining. I think that this kind of approach works well with accented characters, but not with others, which are the majority in Unicode.