From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Inputting characters with specialist diacritic marks in emacs Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 02:24:41 +0100 Message-ID: <877fj2l82u.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <571eb6f1-614e-4ec0-9c55-bbe1fbfb9ddc@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1453425914 20989 80.91.229.3 (22 Jan 2016 01:25:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 01:25:14 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 22 02:25:05 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 1aMQTI-0005fh-Q6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Jan 2016 02:25:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50293 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aMQTI-00027R-8M for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 20:25:04 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49924) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aMQT7-00027K-1Y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 20:24:54 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aMQT2-0001cG-23 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 20:24:52 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:51478) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aMQT1-0001cC-RX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 20:24:47 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aMQT1-0005ZV-48 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jan 2016 02:24:47 +0100 Original-Received: from nl106-137-227.student.uu.se ([130.243.137.227]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 22 Jan 2016 02:24:47 +0100 Original-Received: from embe8573 by nl106-137-227.student.uu.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 22 Jan 2016 02:24:47 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 32 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: nl106-137-227.student.uu.se Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:L6J1Wq5oSWN7re4Hgaqj2ARQoZY= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:108818 Archived-At: "B. T. Raven" writes: > By far the easiest and mnemonically most intuitive > way of inserting exotic glyphs is with an input > method. If you put this line: > > (fset 'im-lat [?\C-x return ?\C-\\ ?l ?a ?t ?i ?n ?- > ?p ?o ?s ?t ?f ?i ?x return]) > > into your .emacs you can invoke the latin-postfix > method with M - im-lat and have access to > å ä ö Å Ä Ö plus about 180 other diacritic > combinations from all the languages of Europe that > use the Latin alphabet, and including £ ¥ € > > then you can toggle back and forth to and from your > previous input method with C-\ That may be a good idea if you have the need for 180+ "diacritic combinations" but if you only need å, ä, ö, which are *not* exotic in Swedish but common vowels like any other, this is far too slow and to change input method at that - no good. For but a few chars that are used all the time the compose key is the best solution: fast, no toggling, and every (other) char remain the same - no blocking or interfering with whatever else you use. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573