From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: TeX input method Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 09:50:01 -0400 Message-ID: References: <858xjxzgfs.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1159883465 26416 80.91.229.2 (3 Oct 2006 13:51:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:51:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 03 15:51:03 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GUkf4-0007og-Ru for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Oct 2006 15:50:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GUkf4-0001e0-Fn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Oct 2006 09:50:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GUket-0001ba-7W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Oct 2006 09:50:07 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GUker-0001ZM-D1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Oct 2006 09:50:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GUker-0001ZD-6v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Oct 2006 09:50:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [132.204.255.112] (helo=alfajor.home) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GUkl4-0000Xn-06; Tue, 03 Oct 2006 09:56:30 -0400 Original-Received: by alfajor.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 01B581CC86; Tue, 3 Oct 2006 09:50:01 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: David Kastrup In-Reply-To: <858xjxzgfs.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Tue\, 03 Oct 2006 15\:17\:59 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:60391 Archived-At: >> 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