Re: creating a sub-menu

[Joost Kremers <joostkremers@yahoo.com>]

ken wrote:
> Thanks for your response, Joost.  But I already have an easier way than 
> that to change the input method, one which takes just two mouse 
> clicks... and then another two mouse clicks to return to my normal input 
> method.

That's too much. It's also the wrong input medium. ;-) Toggling the
input method can be done with `C-\', which IMHO is much much easier and
quicker than using the mouse.

>  But I want a way so that all I need do is "C-xaa" to get 'ä'-- 
> so I can type this and other characters without breaking the flow of my 
> typing.

Using C-\ will allow you to do just that. (In fact, I don't see any
reason why one would want to disable the input method. When I type
German or Dutch, I just toggle the input method and keep it until I kill
the relevant buffer.)

>  I want these listed in the menu also because I might not 
> remember all the key combos for all the characters.  (I'll likely add 
> more in future.)

Well, I can't really help with the menu (I'm not even sure what this
xascii is...) but I do know that this error:

>>> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument arrayp xascii)

tells you that Emacs is expecting an array but getting xascii. In this
case the array Emacs is expecting must probably be either a string or a
vector, since a boolean vector or a char table doesn't seem to make
sense in a menu.

Don't know if that helps, though...

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Joost Kremers                                   joostkremers@fastmail.fm
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