From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ilya Zakharevich Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: greek writing language and keybindings Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 22:35:15 +0000 (UTC) Organization: U.C. Berkeley Math. Department. Message-ID: References: <4CCA2F86.20205@mousecar.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291896041 22583 80.91.229.12 (9 Dec 2010 12:00:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 12:00:41 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 09 13:00:37 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQfAq-0000b6-2v for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 13:00:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58019 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQfAm-0000Ru-Pw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 07:00:32 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.buerger.net!newsfeed.datemas.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Injection-Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 22:35:15 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="LlLjF8LevGdIZWbTvv+SXA"; logging-data="1532"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+YMSQCPgCOu/GjUZ3G/vkj" User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1pl1 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:b4ZipAnJgGtclW5+zuxyX3QvCbw= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:182186 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:77007 Archived-At: On 2010-11-03, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 05:59:32 +0300 (EEST), Dimitrios Apostolou wrote: >>> Next, in order to be able to type in Greek characters, you need to set >>> the input method. Do this for the current buffer by clicking on >>> "Options", "MULE", and "Select Input Method". In the minibuffer type >>> "gr", then hit Tab (C-i) and you'll see several Greek input methods. >>> You'll have to play around with these to find the one(s) you prefer. >> >> Thanks for the suggestion, I tried that and indeed emacs keybindings >> work fine like that. But that requires switching languages within emacs >> with C-\, overriding the setxkbmap command. Is there a better way? > > Unfortunately no. The current XKB input method changes what Emacs sees > as a keypress when you switch languages through XKB. So you have to > stick to C-\ and `M-x set-input-method' or keep switching back to XKB > English before you use an Emacs command. So what? When a key-map gets an unknown key, cannot it call a user-defined function to translate stuff using a special translation-map? Essentially, this would mean installing a special translation-map for duration of key-sequences... Ilya