inserting quotes (") and slashes (/) ?

inserting quotes (") and slashes (/) ?

[Josh DuBois]

Hi - 

   I've used emacs for years and this seems like a newbie question, but 
I can't figure it out or find it in an FAQ: inserting quote characters, 
and also the forward-slash, in emacs, seems to trigger a 'compose 
character' behavior or something.  When I hit '/' I get, at the bottom 
of my screen:

/[ /234=AEO\aceo]

..if I type one of the characters above then some weird control 
sequence is inserted, otherwise I get the slash character I want.  Same 
thing happens for the " character.  

It seems to only happen in LaTeX mode, and then only sometimes.  I can't 
figure out when or why, and / & " say they're mapped to self-insert-
command and tex-insert-quote, respectively, neither of which should do 
what I'm seeing, AFAICT.  I'm running 23.5 on Mac OS X (from a terminal).

I would really appreciate anyone who can point me to the solution.

Thank you!

Re: inserting quotes (") and slashes (/) ?

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Sun, 15 Dec 2002, Josh DuBois wrote:

>    I've used emacs for years and this seems like a newbie question, but 
> I can't figure it out or find it in an FAQ: inserting quote characters, 
> and also the forward-slash, in emacs, seems to trigger a 'compose 
> character' behavior or something.  When I hit '/' I get, at the bottom 
> of my screen:
> 
> /[ /234=AEO\aceo]
> 
> ..if I type one of the characters above then some weird control 
> sequence is inserted, otherwise I get the slash character I want.  Same 
> thing happens for the " character.  
> 
> It seems to only happen in LaTeX mode, and then only sometimes.

Sounds like on your system LaTeX mode somehow turns on a Latin-1 input 
method.  Input methods are meant to allow one to type non-ASCII 
characters that aren't directly supported by the keyboard.  They work by 
combining several ASCII keys into a single non-ASCII character (that's 
the ``weird control sequence'' you see.

You can turn off the input method by typing "C-\".  Alternatively, typing 
a SPACE after / or typing "C-q /" will produce a literal /.

Re: inserting quotes (") and slashes (/) ?

[Tim X]

Josh DuBois <duboisj@codeweavers.com> writes:

> Hi - 
> 
>    I've used emacs for years and this seems like a newbie question, but 
> I can't figure it out or find it in an FAQ: inserting quote characters, 
> and also the forward-slash, in emacs, seems to trigger a 'compose 
> character' behavior or something.  When I hit '/' I get, at the bottom 
> of my screen:
> 
> /[ /234=AEO\aceo]
> 
> ..if I type one of the characters above then some weird control 
> sequence is inserted, otherwise I get the slash character I want.  Same 
> thing happens for the " character.  

Sounds like your buffer is in some strange input codeing system - check
the docs on coding system and possibly an aprops with coding-system
might find something?
 
> It seems to only happen in LaTeX mode, and then only sometimes.  I can't 
> figure out when or why, and / & " say they're mapped to self-insert-
> command and tex-insert-quote, respectively, neither of which should do 
> what I'm seeing, AFAICT.  I'm running 23.5 on Mac OS X (from a terminal).
>
23.5? Is the mac version numbering different or is this 21.3?

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