From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joost Kremers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Inputting characters with specialist diacritic marks in emacs Date: 22 Jan 2016 01:31:34 GMT Message-ID: References: <571eb6f1-614e-4ec0-9c55-bbe1fbfb9ddc@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1453426521 29256 80.91.229.3 (22 Jan 2016 01:35:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 01:35:21 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 22 02:35:20 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 1aMQdE-0001XH-Kz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Jan 2016 02:35:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50325 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aMQdD-0005yI-PZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 20:35:19 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 42 Original-X-Trace: individual.net ydcQNBdCZYbPCJNP4eporgSo9w/KA7laCasLLddWV0RbIR/aLJ Cancel-Lock: sha1:claxVR2oLt4dhQLY5+BKBX8szYA= Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Editor: Emacs of course! User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:216529 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:108820 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg wrote: > "B. T. Raven" writes: > >> By far the easiest and mnemonically most intuitive >> way of inserting exotic glyphs is with an input >> method. If you put this line: >> >> (fset 'im-lat [?\C-x return ?\C-\\ ?l ?a ?t ?i ?n ?- >> ?p ?o ?s ?t ?f ?i ?x return]) >> >> into your .emacs you can invoke the latin-postfix >> method with M - im-lat and have access to >> å ä ö Å Ä Ö plus about 180 other diacritic >> combinations from all the languages of Europe that >> use the Latin alphabet, and including £ ¥ € >> >> then you can toggle back and forth to and from your >> previous input method with C-\ > > That may be a good idea if you have the need for 180+ > "diacritic combinations" but if you only need å, ä, ö, > which are *not* exotic in Swedish but common vowels > like any other, this is far too slow and to change > input method at that - no good. > > For but a few chars that are used all the time the > compose key is the best solution: fast, no toggling, > and every (other) char remain the same - no blocking > or interfering with whatever else you use. Actually, Latin-n input methods generally don't intefere with anything. I generally turn on latin-9-prefix when I type Dutch or German and keep it on. There's no need to turn it off, unless for some reason I need another input method. (IPA, X-SAMPA and TeX are ones I use from time to time. They are more intrusive, esp. the first two: it's not possible to have them on while typing normal text.) -- Joost Kremers joostkremers@fastmail.fm Selbst in die Unterwelt dringt durch Spalten Licht EN:SiS(9)