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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Writing source code with Unicode characters
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2014 20:45:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8338jwyt99.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zjm4qeqi.fsf@wanadoo.es>

> From: Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es>
> Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2014 19:26:45 +0100
> 
> I'll like to experiment with using Unicode on source code (λ instead of
> lambda, etc) but it seems quite inconvenient to insert those chars with
> C-x 8 RET. Org-mode has the capability of displaying λ when you type
> \lambda, but that's just a display replacement, the raw text still is
> \lambda.
> 
> What can I use to make more convenient the insertion of Unicode chars?
> (I'm mostly interested on Greek letters and other math-related symbols)

The TeX input method?  You type "\lambda", literally, and get what you
want.





  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-06 18:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-06 18:26 Writing source code with Unicode characters Óscar Fuentes
2014-02-06 18:45 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2014-02-06 18:48 ` Drew Adams
2014-02-06 19:23 ` Göktuğ Kayaalp
2014-02-06 20:38 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-02-06 22:59   ` Drew Adams
2014-02-07  0:32 ` Florian Beck
     [not found] <mailman.13962.1391711236.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-02-06 20:36 ` Eric Wolf
2014-02-07  2:52 ` Rusi
2014-02-07 16:41   ` Rusi

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