Howto set german keyboard for emacs

Howto set german keyboard for emacs

[Schönwald, Oliver]

Hello,

I'm using a standard issue german keyboard. I use emacs on a SUN Solaris server. My client machine runs Windows 7 with Exceed as X-Server.

When I use emacs using the -nw option anything is alright on the console. However, when I use emacs in its X11-mode, the key with the < and > is ignored by emacs.

I already found out that I had to change the input-method to german to get at least the Umlaute and some of the other german layout (ß-key) working. But the <>-key doesn't work with that, too.

Any ideas?

Thank you in advance,

Oliver Schönwald

Re: Howto set german keyboard for emacs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Schönwald, Oliver
> 	<oliver.schoenwald@FernUni-Hagen.de>
> Date: Sat, 10 May 2014 21:46:30 +0000
> 
> I'm using a standard issue german keyboard. I use emacs on a SUN Solaris server. My client machine runs Windows 7 with Exceed as X-Server.
> 
> When I use emacs using the -nw option anything is alright on the console. However, when I use emacs in its X11-mode, the key with the < and > is ignored by emacs.
> 
> I already found out that I had to change the input-method to german to get at least the Umlaute and some of the other german layout (ß-key) working. But the <>-key doesn't work with that, too.
> 
> Any ideas?

I think this is something with how Exceed is set up.

AW: Howto set german keyboard for emacs

[Schönwald, Oliver]

Hello Eli,

thank you, this was the solution I hadn't in mind. Sometimes one is blind to other factors.
Exceed had some older Xconfig properties regarding my older US keyboard. After I took a look into that changed it, emacs works as I want.

Best Regards,

Oliver

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+oliver.schoenwald=fernuni-hagen.de@gnu.org
> [mailto:help-gnu-emacs-bounces+oliver.schoenwald=fernuni-
> hagen.de@gnu.org] Im Auftrag von Eli Zaretskii
> Gesendet: Sonntag, 11. Mai 2014 06:23
> An: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Betreff: Re: Howto set german keyboard for emacs
> 
> > From: Schönwald, Oliver
> > 	<oliver.schoenwald@FernUni-Hagen.de>
> > Date: Sat, 10 May 2014 21:46:30 +0000
> >
> > I'm using a standard issue german keyboard. I use emacs on a SUN Solaris
> server. My client machine runs Windows 7 with Exceed as X-Server.
> >
> > When I use emacs using the -nw option anything is alright on the console.
> However, when I use emacs in its X11-mode, the key with the < and > is
> ignored by emacs.
> >
> > I already found out that I had to change the input-method to german to get
> at least the Umlaute and some of the other german layout (ß-key) working.
> But the <>-key doesn't work with that, too.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> 
> I think this is something with how Exceed is set up.
>