Emacs 22: bind keymappings with cyrrilics to corresponding latin keymappings?

Emacs 22: bind keymappings with cyrrilics to corresponding latin keymappings?

[cmr.Pent]

Hello!

I enjoy Emacs 22.1 under Debian. My locale is UTF-8, and I use qwerty/
йцукен keyboard layouts.

Recently I began to feel irritated that Emacs ignores keymappings when
I am at cyrrilic layout. For example, I enter some russian text in say
LaTeX mode and want to refill paragraph. So I need to switch to latin
layout, hit M-q, and switch back to continue typing. If I just hit M-q
while at cyrrilic layout, Emacs says she doesn't know how to handle M-
й. Well, that has logic, but slows me down big time.

Is there a way to map *all* the [latin] keymappings to corresponding
"cyrrilic" ones, so C-ч-C-а is C-x-C-f, C-л is C-k and so on? Any help
greatly appreciated.

Andrey

Re: Emacs 22: bind keymappings with cyrrilics to corresponding latin keymappings?

[Xah Lee]

i'm thinking that at most you just have to do about 26x2=52 lines of
keymap code?

i.e.

(global-set-key (kbd "C-Þ C-Á") 'find-file)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-Ì") 'kill-line)
...

i don't know if there's a easy systematic way... but i'm guessing
manually doing the above is probably easier than hacking up a
systematic way...

as you migt know, C-h k lets you find out the command of a given
shortcut.
C-h f tells you the shortcuts of a given command.

The following might be convenient:

• Emacs's Keybinding Layout
http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs_kb_shortcuts.html

• How to Define Keyboard Shortcuts in Emacs
http://xahlee.org/emacs/keyboard_shortcuts.html

  Xah
  xah@xahlee.org
∑ http://xahlee.org/

On Oct 28, 7:29 am, "cmr.P...@gmail.com" <cmr.P...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I enjoy Emacs 22.1 under Debian. My locale is UTF-8, and I use qwerty/
> ÊÃÕËÅÎ keyboard layouts.
>
> Recently I began to feel irritated that Emacs ignores keymappings when
> I am at cyrrilic layout. For example, I enter some russian text in say
> LaTeX mode and want to refill paragraph. So I need to switch to latin
> layout, hit M-q, and switch back to continue typing. If I just hit M-q
> while at cyrrilic layout, Emacs says she doesn't know how to handle M-
> Ê. Well, that has logic, but slows me down big time.
>
> Is there a way to map *all* the [latin] keymappings to corresponding
> "cyrrilic" ones, so C-Þ-C-Á is C-x-C-f, C-Ì is C-k and so on? Any help
> greatly appreciated.
>
> Andrey

Re: Emacs 22: bind keymappings with cyrrilics to corresponding latin keymappings?

[Oleg Katsitadze]

On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 02:29:41PM -0000, cmr.Pent@gmail.com wrote:
> If I just hit M-q while at cyrrilic layout, Emacs says she doesn't
> know how to handle M-й.

You should setup and use Emacs's input methods, instead of X Window
keyboard layouts or console key maps.  Take a look at the
"International Character Set Support" section of the manual.

For example (in your .emacs):

,----
| (set-terminal-coding-system 'utf-8)
| (set-keyboard-coding-system 'utf-8)
| (set-selection-coding-system 'utf-8)
| (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)
`----

If you are intending to use CP1251, also

,----
| (codepage-setup 1251)
`----

Also take a look at set-language-environment.

Cheers,
Oleg

Re: Emacs 22: bind keymappings with cyrrilics to corresponding latin keymappings?

[cmr.Pent]

Thanks Xah, but I indeed want a systematic way, because I want to be
able to use *all* the shortcuts.

Thanks Oleg, I think I will try your solution. The problem is that I
wanted to switch the layout consistently in all applications...

Hm, just a thought: what if rebind CapsLock in Emacs so it uses its
own switcher?.. I'll report if it is possible!

Andrey

Re: Emacs 22: bind keymappings with cyrrilics to corresponding latin keymappings?

[cmr.Pent]

On 28 окт, 21:59, "cmr.P...@gmail.com" <cmr.P...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hm, just a thought: what if rebind CapsLock in Emacs so it uses its
> own switcher?.. I'll report if it is possible!

Ahh, Emacs doesn't recognize CapsLock :-(

Andrey

Re: Emacs 22: bind keymappings with cyrrilics to corresponding latin keymappings?

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 28.10.2007 um 20:06 schrieb cmr.Pent@gmail.com:

> Ahh, Emacs doesn't recognize CapsLock :-(

But xmodmap can map CapsLock to some modifier key ...

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   Pete

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