From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: TeX input method
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 09:50:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv4pulzf10.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <858xjxzgfs.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Tue\, 03 Oct 2006 15\:17\:59 +0200")
>> I like the TeX input method and tend to turn it on in ever more buffers.
>> But as I do that I start to bump into cases where it annoys me.
>> Overall it's a pretty discrete input method, but I recently got annoyed by
>> some of the keys it uses.
>>
>> I'm sure other people have other pet peeves, but here are my two main
>> problems and suggestion to fix each.
>>
>> - First problem: ~ is mapped to the non-breaking space. It actually took me
>> a while to understand why my ~ key didn't insert a tilde: TeX usually only
>> fiddles with key sequences, so you get to see visually that thjere's
>> something going on (because of the underscored text, and the echo area
>> output). I suggest to leave ~ alone and use `\ SPC' for nbsp.
> That is strictly wrong, since `\ ' means a breakable space of standard
> width in TeX.
It's not strictly wrong because: the TeX input method != the TeX language.
BTW, do you have a counter suggestion for how to deal with the inconvenience
of mapping ~ to nbsp?
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-03 13:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-02 19:40 TeX input method Stefan Monnier
2006-10-03 13:17 ` David Kastrup
2006-10-03 13:50 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2006-10-03 13:56 ` David Kastrup
2006-10-03 14:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-10-04 2:55 ` Kenichi Handa
2006-10-05 5:30 ` Miles Bader
2006-10-05 7:26 ` David Kastrup
2006-10-05 13:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-10-05 13:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-10-05 14:19 ` David Kastrup
2006-10-05 14:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-10-06 8:16 ` Kim F. Storm
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