From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Oleksandr Gavenko Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Russian typing tutorial? Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2012 17:07:21 +0300 Organization: At home. Message-ID: <87d3459gfa.fsf@desktop.home.int> References: <155DEC68569B714B86C2C7075F5EDA9812CC33DA@DAKIYA1.pegasus.local> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1341842874 30313 80.91.229.3 (9 Jul 2012 14:07:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 14:07:54 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 09 16:07:54 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 1SoEcz-0003B5-3s for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Jul 2012 16:07:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52208 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SoEcx-0006GL-VF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Jul 2012 10:07:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:56637) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SoEcr-0006Fj-4b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jul 2012 10:07:47 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SoEch-0005Om-7S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jul 2012 10:07:44 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:38707) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SoEch-0005OL-0p for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jul 2012 10:07:35 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SoEce-0002Yf-RX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jul 2012 16:07:32 +0200 Original-Received: from 46.185.20.32 ([46.185.20.32]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 09 Jul 2012 16:07:32 +0200 Original-Received: from gavenkoa by 46.185.20.32 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 09 Jul 2012 16:07:32 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 32 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 46.185.20.32 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:RJYi5EEAajeKGuV7zX7Oruet3Ro= 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:85742 Archived-At: On 2012-07-09, Doug Lewan wrote: > Is there a tutorial for typing in Russian in emacs? > > I'm using emacs 23.4 on Cygwin on Windows 7. > > gtypist is unfortunately not the answer since my work PC is in English with > no Cyrillic fonts and I have no option to change that. gtypist is very > unhappy doing anything under X, complaining with the error "Redirection is > not supported." > > Emacs and X, however, already have the right pieces. It seems like a natural > thing. > As far I know there are no teachers for typing in Emacs... You can print Russian layout from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout#Russian Or ever use Emacs for this purpose: M-x describe-input-method russian-computer RET To learn typing in Emacs I may suggest divide Emacs on 2 window by C-x 2, open Russian text (C-x C-f file RET, and optionally C-x RET R UTF-8 RET to set proper coding system) in one window and try to type it in second window... To switch input method use C-\... -- Best regards!