From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Input method or help feature needed Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 23:50:25 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1297985324 23179 80.91.229.12 (17 Feb 2011 23:28:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 23:28:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 18 00:28:40 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PqDGs-0000zY-Gg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 00:28:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39219 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PqCmM-00030X-7d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 17:56:54 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=60024 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PqCgI-0008Qp-L0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 17:50:39 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PqCg9-0001Iu-63 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 17:50:30 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.9]:33847) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PqCg9-0001GQ-0x; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 17:50:29 -0500 Original-Received: from frontend1.mail.m-online.net (unknown [192.168.8.180]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D97C1C1D9F2; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 23:50:26 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (dynscan1.mnet-online.de [192.168.8.164]) by mail.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F9011C000A3; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 23:50:26 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mnet-online.de Original-Received: from mail.mnet-online.de ([192.168.8.180]) by localhost (dynscan1.mail.m-online.net [192.168.8.164]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 6p0tTREZrMCC; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 23:50:26 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from igel.home (ppp-93-104-144-34.dynamic.mnet-online.de [93.104.144.34]) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTP; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 23:50:25 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by igel.home (Postfix, from userid 501) id 699D0CA2A0; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 23:50:25 +0100 (CET) X-Yow: PIZZA!! In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:14:27 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2.94 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-Received-From: 212.18.0.9 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:136155 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > Once in a while I want to enter some character that I know exists in > Unicode, though I know nothing about where to find it. Today it was > the Turkish i without dot. > > It is not easy to find how to enter the character you want. > Can anyone develop a way to make it easier? The X11 compose feature actually has pretty easy to remember ways to input such characters. For example, the dotless i can be generated by <.> ( is usually on Shift-RControl). Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."