RE: .emacs poser

[Doug Lewan <dougl@shubertticketing.com>]

> Yes - then it works exactly as I thought it would. The
> thing I don't like (as I mentioned) is that the prefix
> char is visible before the translation is done.

One of the early requirements for supporting multiple character sets was that it be implemented in a single, unifying framework. What you don't like is a consequence of that.

European character sets tend to be simple: Roman alphabet + modifications. Many languages are much more involved, and the input method correspondingly so. TeX as an input method can give you a hint about why you might want to see the input-so-far: You can proofread it as you go.

,Douglas
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+dougl=shubertticketing.com@gnu.org
> [mailto:help-gnu-emacs-bounces+dougl=shubertticketing.com@gnu.org] On
> Behalf Of Emanuel Berg
> Sent: Tuesday, 2013 December 17 17:42
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: .emacs poser
> 
> Doug Lewan <dougl@shubertticketing.com> writes:
> 
> > Whoops! I omitted an important detail.
> >
> > You need to be using the latin-1-prefix input
> > method. C-\ will ask you for an input method.
> 
> I have C-x RET C-\ for `set-input-method', and C-\ for
> `toggle-input-method'.
> 
> Yes - then it works exactly as I thought it would. The
> thing I don't like (as I mentioned) is that the prefix
> char is visible before the translation is done. But I
> like it a lot anyway. I don't think I ever use the
> Swedish chars in zsh, so I doesn't really matter that
> this will be an Emacs only solution. Plus, I still have
> the compose key. I think I will start using this as for
> now.
> 
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