From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "B. T. Raven" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Ascii character typeing Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 08:57:14 -0500 Organization: UseNetServer.com Message-ID: References: <1153217054.336610.9850@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1153233675 1481 80.91.229.2 (18 Jul 2006 14:41:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 14:41:15 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 18 16:41:13 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G2qkK-00034L-75 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 16:40:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G2qkJ-0007GN-IQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 10:40:23 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!atl-c08.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!pc03.usenetserver.com!DIALUPUSA.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@usenetserver.com Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Trace: cb41c44bce8d9a13a834618895 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:140417 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:36047 Archived-At: "Sonu" wrote in message news:1153217054.336610.9850@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com... > hi all, i want to know how can i type ascii characters, for example in > windows i do this by typing ALT + xxx where "xxx" is the ascii code of > the character. so i want to know how can i do this in linux, any help > would be apreciated... > I suspect that you mean non-ASCII characters, i.e. those outside the range 32-126. In the msw os you can get the ! (bang) by typing Alt-033 but it makes no sense. Shift-1 accomplishes the same thing much more easily. In order to produce the most common Western European diacritical marks (usually over vowels) use one of the dedicated input methods. To see how these work, type Ctl-x ret Ctl-\ latin-1-postfix ret Now many keypresses will generate the corresponding character but with an underline. At the bottom of the screen (echo area or mini-buffer) you will see additional characters that may be appended (postfixed) to the base character in order to modify it in some way. Play around with input methods for a while (instead of 'latin-1-postfix' hit TAB to see a hundred odd other ones) and you will agree that this is the way to go. Ed