From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Roland Winkler" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: input method for unicode math characters Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 16:35:17 -0500 Message-ID: <20102.13845.656476.544543@gargle.gargle.HOWL> References: <20101.36002.883292.80289@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <83y5x6cbzs.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1317451782 21085 80.91.229.12 (1 Oct 2011 06:49:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2011 06:49:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii , antoine.levitt@gmail.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 01 08:49:38 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R9tOD-0003sR-Ck for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Oct 2011 08:49:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39774 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R9tOC-00015E-TL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Oct 2011 02:49:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:47381) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R9kjs-000720-BP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Sep 2011 17:35:25 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R9kjr-0001ym-Eb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Sep 2011 17:35:24 -0400 Original-Received: from essmail.ess.niu.edu ([131.156.1.18]:50531) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R9kjp-0001yG-EC; Fri, 30 Sep 2011 17:35:21 -0400 Original-Received: from regnitz (lukas.physics.niu.edu [131.156.85.221]) by essmail.ess.niu.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p8ULZHK3018212; Fri, 30 Sep 2011 16:35:18 -0500 (CDT) In-Reply-To: <83y5x6cbzs.fsf@gnu.org> X-Mailer: VM 8.2 trial under 24.0.50.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 131.156.1.18 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 01 Oct 2011 02:49:35 -0400 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:144508 Archived-At: On Fri Sep 30 2011 Antoine Levitt wrote: > There's C-x 8 RET. For instance C-x 8 RET double integral produces > =E2 =AC. Thanks, well, the problem with this is that one needs to know these names > Or do you mean some other mode like latex-math-abbrev ? ...and here it's kind of similar with zillions of commands On Fri Sep 30 2011 Eli Zaretskii wrote: > Did you try "C-u C-\ TeX RET"? ...while here somehow I get completely irritated by the minibuffer that pops up (or is it the message area? oh well!) Probably this can be customized. But then how to keep track of the available possibilities? -- In any case: Thanks! I just started myself thinking about the question what I might find useful here. I'd like to have something that interrupts my flow of typing as little as possible, while at the same time it's not easy to keep track of the plethora of symbols that are available so that some kind of guidance comes handy. An "acceptable" solution for these contradicting requirements is certainly a matter of taste. To begin with, I now have some approaches to play with. Roland