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Andreas Goesele <goesele@hfph.mwn.de> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I'm in the process of moving from XEmacs to Emacs, but I encountered a
> problem:
>
> To be able to input german umlauts directly I have in my init.el:
>
>  (progn
>  (apply 'set-input-mode t (list (nth 1 (current-input-mode)))
>  0 (list (nth 3 (current-input-mode))))
>  )

That's ugly and broken (there's one `list' call too many).

    ;; poor man's destructuring-bind
    (apply (lambda (interrupt flow meta quit)
             (set-input-mode interrupt flow 0 quit))
     (current-input-mode))

-- 
Johan Bockgård