From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ken Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: greek writing language and keybindings Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 22:20:54 -0400 Message-ID: <4CCA2F86.20205@mousecar.com> References: Reply-To: gebser@mousecar.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1288319094 13717 80.91.229.12 (29 Oct 2010 02:24:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 02:24:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Dimitrios Apostolou Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 29 04:24:53 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1PBeeC-0003hA-Sh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 04:24:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57115 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PBeeC-0000jt-7y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 22:24:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=59473 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PBedM-0000X7-C0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 22:24:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PBed1-00045R-Qt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 22:24:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.perfora.net ([74.208.4.194]:58041) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PBed1-000459-Ls for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 22:23:39 -0400 Original-Received: from dellap.mousecar.net (dsl093-011-017.cle1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.93.11.17]) by mrelay.perfora.net (node=mrus2) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MXZKo-1P7pQ02tRW-00Wtz7; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 22:23:37 -0400 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20101019) In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 OpenPGP: id=5AD091E7 X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:2Y7ywb2s6VobrxqExAkW/ftq5F1hn2+7QqVA9DE+5GG UZahpxc5HjFJqFhkP/aZn4zX43HuzRNBeXbtLYfOICKQ2cy0xU B8kQYNoU+7Qqk6MRMTwMqohNxXqSsBoDy5AzqFfRSroIkm/Eo5 j/RFA6Og2CFzbE+g6gASta9unKHjH3+JOQ+c4YVgrX91Z0aAcJ 6w3FhMJMkYM1kRyv2kwutg2HSCTFZSYHdWVvYPjQNI= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:75268 Archived-At: On 10/28/2010 08:00 PM Dimitrios Apostolou wrote: > Hello list, > > it's the first time I'm using emacs to write greek text, so I just > noticed that I have to switch languages for keybindings to work! That is > for everything, even things that are used all the time, like C-a, M-q, > C-n etc > > Any ideas on how to fix this? > > > Thanks in advance, > Dimitris > > P.S. Please CC replies to me Though I'm not the list's expert, I have dabbled in some languages with emacs. From what I've found, there's two steps. One is to set the buffer's language environment. UTF-8 works for many different languages, Greek included. Select UTF-8 for the current buffer by clicking on "Options", "MULE", and "Set Language Environment", then "URF-8". Next, in order to be able to type in Greek characters, you need to set the input method. Do this for the current buffer by clicking on "Options", "MULE", and "Select Input Method". In the minibuffer type "gr", then hit Tab (C-i) and you'll see several Greek input methods. You'll have to play around with these to find the one(s) you prefer. After you find what works for you, then of course you can put something in your ~/.emacs, but I don't know what that would be. hth, ken