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: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 21:58:04 +0100 Message-ID: <87mvs12so3.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <571eb6f1-614e-4ec0-9c55-bbe1fbfb9ddc@googlegroups.com> <8760yppd44.fsf@debian.uxu> <87mvs147n7.fsf@alphaville.usersys.redhat.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1453237126 7256 80.91.229.3 (19 Jan 2016 20:58:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 20:58:46 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 19 21:58:34 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 1aLdMI-000672-Iu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2016 21:58:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39228 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aLdMH-0000XY-Ub for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2016 15:58:33 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43056) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aLdM7-0000XB-8I for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2016 15:58:24 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aLdM4-0001yY-0d for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2016 15:58:23 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:46479) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aLdM3-0001yU-Po for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2016 15:58:19 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aLdM2-0005yt-Bk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2016 21:58:18 +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 ; Tue, 19 Jan 2016 21:58:18 +0100 Original-Received: from embe8573 by nl106-137-227.student.uu.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 19 Jan 2016 21:58:18 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 27 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:kUiDiOlGDR6Y6C2c24aGl38hRao= 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:108795 Archived-At: Nick Dokos writes: > I'm not sure who does all this - all I'm sure about > is that it's not me! The compose key is good, at least when the goofy chars are but a few. In my case they are three, or six if you count the lower- and uppercase versions as distinct - even so, they share they same compose key and prefix so it is just the actual key that has to have a specific case which is the "case" anyway! The shortcuts seem/are bulky at first but soon enough will enter the muscle memory/finger habits. The advantage with the compose key solution is that there is no switching between layouts - there is one layout that works for everything normal, and one compose key that works (always) for everything beyond that. So there is no getting all confused and frustrated switching the layout back and forth. It is actually pretty good :) -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573