From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rusi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Cant type unicode in emacs any more Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 04:22:49 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <0cab7d04-ccf8-47e4-858b-bb16b478cad6@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1398770753 16199 80.91.229.3 (29 Apr 2014 11:25:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 11:25:53 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 29 13:25:46 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1Wf6AT-0002Dk-I7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Apr 2014 13:25:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48933 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wf6AS-0000Tz-KP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Apr 2014 07:25:44 -0400 X-Received: by 10.42.115.129 with SMTP id k1mr14523039icq.25.1398770569787; Tue, 29 Apr 2014 04:22:49 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.182.197.202 with SMTP id iw10mr60838obc.24.1398770569695; Tue, 29 Apr 2014 04:22:49 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!uq10no278653igb.0!news-out.google.com!gi6ni680igc.0!nntp.google.com!l13no11908656iga.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=59.95.23.218; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.95.23.218 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 11:22:49 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:205175 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:97442 Archived-At: For some time now I have this in my X startup programs: $ setxkbmap -option compose:menu After this I can type (in mostly any window) for example: (with MN being the windows-menu key) MN.. gives ... ie an ellipses MN--. gives - ie an en dash MN--- gives -- ie an em dash Not to mention all the e" giving =EB etc etc - all the unicode goodies at /usr/share/X11/locale/$LANG/Compose Now suddenly its stopped working. ie it works in most other X apps but not in emacs I thought there may be a race-condition between the setxkb and emacs which are both in my startup programs. So I ran the setxkb command by hand from a shell and (re)started emacs from the shell No luck: The compose works outside emacs Doesn't work inside Any clues? Its the same for emacs 23 and 24