From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jambunathan K Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Umlauts on Mac in 24 pretest Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 21:53:42 +0530 Message-ID: <81396q7to1.fsf@gmail.com> References: <1003AB64-797E-4CE6-8467-7668944DE0D9@univie.ac.at> <4FBD0B6A.3030600@math.ethz.ch> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1337790656 9876 80.91.229.3 (23 May 2012 16:30:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 16:30:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Neuwirth Erich Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 23 18:30:54 2012 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 1SXESc-0007S8-Bk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 May 2012 18:30:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41000 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SXESb-0006zW-Mi for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 May 2012 12:30:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:53540) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SXELw-0004pM-VT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 23 May 2012 12:24:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SXELu-0001mV-OV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 23 May 2012 12:24:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-pz0-f41.google.com ([209.85.210.41]:63910) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SXELu-0001m0-Ex for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 23 May 2012 12:23:58 -0400 Original-Received: by dakp5 with SMTP id p5so10649782dak.0 for ; Wed, 23 May 2012 09:23:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=nj3e9v8AfKud8iRyxLL9hCaBoN9pU/GCQyBjUZ4PaII=; b=wBxa8T8Ha65PESBH2I/cYCTLaapoOU0Qo/RE5P8AIQj6iOW1pFMwLF/rkvmk9rCm+i gYNTSyW7UmlcCXzS9u1Lj5xR3Ca0NYCttK1/kcpnbCG4N+tZqhdfC07jFS+2HEnexpM5 6sMezcjw2US2LR9Q+fY41KSagM3xLyvq/yUfBVvbm2pm6z1TMPmydJTViXDBYZBES200 PCbti9tCBbsH161Xq4ySvQb+PIyky1tjTBpWnGnIK7NZX8/quggr0RgbJamuay3PJRJL rzerEl0E8gmMKIW/uonw5mIuSEG3kbzUwzBtaToRMDp7G8TmVktjNdGLOZZ2En8HChwQ NbBA== Original-Received: by 10.68.240.71 with SMTP id vy7mr11536209pbc.78.1337790236109; Wed, 23 May 2012 09:23:56 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from JAMBU-NETBOOK ([115.184.58.66]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id kh10sm2287409pbc.67.2012.05.23.09.23.52 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 23 May 2012 09:23:55 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Neuwirth Erich's message of "Wed, 23 May 2012 18:11:36 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.97 (windows-nt) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 209.85.210.41 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 23 May 2012 12:30:50 -0400 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:84946 Archived-At: Does toggling between input methods work for you? I am not familiar with any of the European languages (other than English). For example, with latin-1-alt-postfix as an input method, you can input the character under question with a". ,---- | Input method: latin-1-postfix (mode line indicator:1<) |=20 | Latin-1 character input method with postfix modifiers |=20 | | postfix | examples | ------------+---------+---------- | acute | ' | a' -> =C3=A1 | grave | ` | a` -> =C3=A0 | circumflex | ^ | a^ -> =C3=A2 | diaeresis | " | a" -> =C3=A4 | tilde | ~ | a~ -> =C3=A3 | cedilla | , | c, -> =C3=A7 | nordic | / | d/ -> =C3=B0 t/ -> =C3=BE a/ -> =C3=A5 e/ = -> =C3=A6 o/ -> =C3=B8 | others | / | s/ -> =C3=9F ?/ -> =C2=BF !/ -> =C2=A1 // = -> =C2=B0 | | various | << -> =C2=AB >> -> =C2=BB o_ -> =C2=BA a_ = -> =C2=AA |=20 | Doubling the postfix separates the letter and postfix: e.g. a'' -> a' `---- > I know that, but it is quite a few keystrokes. > I would rally like to use > Alt-u a and Alt-u ONLY works for aouAOU following it the standard way on = Mac. > So Alt-u should be converted to C-x 8 "=20 > > And of course, Alt-s should be sharp s. > > > On May 23, 2012, at 6:08 PM, Marius Hofert wrote: > >> On 05/23/2012 05:59 PM, Neuwirth Erich wrote: >>> I am using Emacs pretest 24.0.97 on a Mac with Lion 10.7.4. >>> Some of my documents are in German, so I need to enter umlauts and shar= p s. >>> I have not your found an easy solution without giving up to many >>> other keyboard macros. >>> I still would like to use Cmd-X_C_V for Cut-Copy-Paste. >>> And I still would like to use Alt as the meta key. >>>=20 >>> Is there a good solution complying with my wish list? >>>=20 >>>=20 >>=20 >> C-x 8 "a >>=20 >>=20 > > > --=20