Re: keyboard macro

[Christof Spitz <cs@lotsawa.de>]

Wow, thanks so much, Rustom, works great!!

Christof

> Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> hat am 21. Oktober 2013 um 19:00
> geschrieben:
>
>
> On Monday, October 21, 2013 10:05:51 PM UTC+5:30, Christof Spitz wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> >
> >
> > I have to write special characters for transliteration of a non-european
> > language (devanagari) in Emacs. These include characters like ā,ī,ū,ś,ṣ etc.
> > Basically this has become easy since Emacs supports Unicode. The question is
> > how
> > to enter those special characters easily. In Windows, I use a scripting
> > program
> > called "AutoHotKey". I defined macros so that, for example, when I write
> > "..a"
> > it will insert "ā" etc. In Emacs, I was not able to define such macros. I
> > have
> >
> > to use the "function keys" such as f5, or Ctrl or Alt (Meta), so that I have
> > to
> > enter f5-a to produce ā, for example. That makes the typewriting slow. If I
> > define a macro instead, it needs to finish the string "..a" with a space to
> > "trigger" the insert, but this is not what I want.
> >
> >
> > So my question: Is there a way to define a macro/keyboard function that will
> > insert a certain character at the point when I write "..x" (not followed by
> > a
> > space)?
> >
> >
> > Or should I better look for a Linux scripting program that works similar to
> > AutoHotKey in Windows?
> >
>
> After evaluating the below code, do C-x RET C-\ diacritic-for-devanagari
> --------------------
> (require 'quail)
>
> (quail-define-package
> "diacritic-for-devanagari" "UTF-8" "अ" t
> "Example diacritic
>
> " nil t t nil t nil nil nil nil nil t)
>
> (quail-define-rules
> ("..a" ?ā)
> ;; add the rest here
> )
>
>
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