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From: m_mommer@yahoo.com (Mario S. Mommer)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: x-symbol?
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:50:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pqzka40a.fsf@padme.localdomain> (raw)


Hi,

One of the things I use emacs for is writing LaTeX documents, and
besides auctex and reftex, there is one package that is very important
and useful to me: x-symbol. The bad news is that the package has been
orphaned some while ago, and is suffering from bitrot. This is really
unfortunate, because x-symbol has two features that I have not found
anywhere else: an input method based on shortcuts and modifiers for
quite a few latex symbols, and optic sugar for many symbols, so that
e.g. \alpha appear as the greek letter alpha on screen. For some reason,
I find these two features really help a lot.

My questions are:

 - does anyone have a version of x-symbol that runs on emacs 23 and is
   willing to share it here?

 - Does anyone know of an alternative?

Thanks,

       Mario


             reply	other threads:[~2010-06-21 13:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-21 13:50 Mario S. Mommer [this message]
2010-06-22  8:36 ` x-symbol? Eric S Fraga
2010-06-23  8:00   ` x-symbol? Mario S. Mommer
2010-06-22  9:06 ` x-symbol? David Kastrup
2010-06-23  7:49   ` x-symbol? Mario S. Mommer
2010-06-23 12:10     ` x-symbol? David Kastrup
     [not found] ` <87bpb3idsr.fsf@fh-trier.de>
2010-06-23  7:54   ` x-symbol? Mario S. Mommer

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