From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Inputting characters with specialist diacritic marks in emacs Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 00:52:43 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <19c5f9fd-7e6d-4aa6-8508-1e4cfe79e92f@googlegroups.com> References: <571eb6f1-614e-4ec0-9c55-bbe1fbfb9ddc@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1453885033 17054 80.91.229.3 (27 Jan 2016 08:57:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 08:57:13 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 27 09:56:58 2016 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 1aOLsp-00013Y-7B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Jan 2016 09:55:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48629 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aOLso-0000BO-Bm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Jan 2016 03:55:22 -0500 X-Received: by 10.129.105.196 with SMTP id e187mr24943292ywc.33.1453884764890; Wed, 27 Jan 2016 00:52:44 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.50.73.231 with SMTP id o7mr711342igv.2.1453884763860; Wed, 27 Jan 2016 00:52:43 -0800 (PST) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!94no7565386qgt.1!news-out.google.com!l1ni9119igd.0!nntp.google.com!o2no6605825iga.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: <571eb6f1-614e-4ec0-9c55-bbe1fbfb9ddc@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=73.202.17.74; posting-account=wcF3XAoAAADpxbRZm2Z27inMlnZjMIWc Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 73.202.17.74 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 08:52:44 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:216587 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:108879 Archived-At: I originally started using Emacs over 25 years ago, for precisely the reason that it was easy to find documentation on how to type diacritical marks. I no longer have the older .emacs files, but I used single character abbreviations. It was very fast to type, even faster than the \C-x8... method. I now use the latter, because it's easier to remember. In my .emacs file was a list of abbrevs. If I had a specific set of characters that I needed often today, I would think again about using abbrevs. I'm sorry I cannot provide more specific information. Alan Davis