Implementation of (self-insert-command ) ??

Implementation of (self-insert-command ) ??

[Joakim Hove]

Hello,

I am writing some simple functionality to insert the portabel variety
of Norwegian characters in LaTeX, so that:

Keyboard press     Inserted in buffer
-------------------------------------
æ                  {\ae}
ø                  {\o}
å                  {\aa}
...
-------------------------------------

I have implemented this with something like:

(define-key LaTeX-mode-map keycode 'latex-insert-encoded)

Where the function (latex-insert-encoded) does the actual
insertion. What I wondered was how to pass the keycode invoking
(latex-insert-encoded) to the function (latex-insert-encoded)?



Best Regards

Joakim Hove

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Re: Implementation of (self-insert-command ) ??

[Reiner Steib]

On Mon, Sep 15 2003, Joakim Hove wrote:

> I am writing some simple functionality to insert the portabel variety
> of Norwegian characters in LaTeX, so that:
>
> Keyboard press     Inserted in buffer
> -------------------------------------
> æ                  {\ae}
> ø                  {\o}
> å                  {\aa}
> ...

What's wrong with "\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}"?

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Re: Implementation of (self-insert-command ) ?? [Solved]

[Joakim Hove]

Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de> writes:


>
> What's wrong with "\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}"?
>

Nothing wrong with that - in most cases that is probably the best
solution, but specially when mailing LaTeX code out of the country I
prefer a 100% portable format.

Thanks anyway :-)

Joakim

PS - The problem is solved with the help of the variable:
'last-command-event


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Re: Implementation of (self-insert-command ) ??

[Stefan Monnier]

> Keyboard press     Inserted in buffer
> -------------------------------------
> æ                  {\ae}
> ø                  {\o}
> å                  {\aa}
> ...
> -------------------------------------

If you really don't like LaTeX's `inputenc', you can also try to use
`iso-cvt' (bundled with Emacs) to convert upon load/save.
Or also X-Symbol, which does the same and more in a much more
sophisticated way.


        Stefan

Re: Implementation of (self-insert-command ) ??

[Piet van Oostrum]

>>>>> "Stefan Monnier" <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> (SM) wrote:

>> Keyboard press     Inserted in buffer
>> -------------------------------------
>> æ                  {\ae}
>> ø                  {\o}
>> å                  {\aa}
>> ...
>> -------------------------------------

SM> If you really don't like LaTeX's `inputenc', you can also try to use
SM> `iso-cvt' (bundled with Emacs) to convert upon load/save.
SM> Or also X-Symbol, which does the same and more in a much more
SM> sophisticated way.

The bundled iso-cvt is quite buggy, in that it generates LaTeX code that
gives different results than the use of the non-ASCII characters with
inputenc. I personally use a mended version, but it also isn't 100% right.
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Re: Implementation of (self-insert-command ) ??

[Stefan Monnier]

SM> If you really don't like LaTeX's `inputenc', you can also try to use
SM> `iso-cvt' (bundled with Emacs) to convert upon load/save.
SM> Or also X-Symbol, which does the same and more in a much more
SM> sophisticated way.

> The bundled iso-cvt is quite buggy, in that it generates LaTeX code that
> gives different results than the use of the non-ASCII characters with
> inputenc.

Indeed, it's difficult to do it right.
X-Symbol goes through some significant trouble to try and do it
well, but I don't know if it covers 100% of the cases (after all, it's
difficult to fix it in a `verbatim' environment, for example).

> I personally use a mended version, but it also isn't 100% right.

Patches welcome,


        Stefan

Re: Implementation of (self-insert-command ) ??

[Jim Janney]

Joakim Hove <hove@bccs.no> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I am writing some simple functionality to insert the portabel variety
> of Norwegian characters in LaTeX, so that:
> 
> Keyboard press     Inserted in buffer
> -------------------------------------
> æ                  {\ae}
> ø                  {\o}
> å                  {\aa}
> ...
> -------------------------------------
> 
> I have implemented this with something like:
> 
> (define-key LaTeX-mode-map keycode 'latex-insert-encoded)
> 
> Where the function (latex-insert-encoded) does the actual
> insertion. What I wondered was how to pass the keycode invoking
> (latex-insert-encoded) to the function (latex-insert-encoded)?
> 

I think self-insert-command looks at the variable last-command-event.
You can also get the prefix argument with (interactive "P")

-- 
Jim Janney