From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harald Hanche-Olsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Input method or help feature needed Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 23:45:11 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <20110220.234511.1657359509170577366.hanche@math.ntnu.no> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1298241928 2388 80.91.229.12 (20 Feb 2011 22:45:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:45:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, schwab@linux-m68k.org, cloos@jhcloos.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 20 23:45:23 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PrI1r-0007qD-12 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 23:45:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46851 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PrI1q-00031r-Dg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:45:22 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=39506 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PrI1m-00031k-9z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:45:19 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PrI1l-0002nV-8J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:45:18 -0500 Original-Received: from anne.math.ntnu.no ([129.241.15.150]:41152) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PrI1k-0002mv-Nl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:45:17 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 25781 invoked from network); 20 Feb 2011 22:45:13 -0000 Original-Received: from gauss.math.ntnu.no (HELO localhost) (hanche@129.241.15.102) by anne.math.ntnu.no with ESMTPA; 20 Feb 2011 22:45:13 -0000 In-Reply-To: X-URL: http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/ X-Mailer: Mew version 6.3.50 on Emacs 24.0.50 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 129.241.15.150 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:136300 Archived-At: [Richard Stallman (2011-02-20 21:01:11 UTC)] > How can I find the Compose key on my keyboard? As far as I understand, Compose and Multi_key are one and the same. That is, the key used to be labeled Compose on the old Sun keyboards. The PC keyboard doesn't have any such key, but I think it has been common on X11 to use the right hand Menu key for that. Anyhow, Multi_Key is the keysym used on X11. If you run xev and place the mouse cursor in the little window that pops up, you can hit various keys and find out what X11 thinks they're called. If you don't have a key mapped to Multi_key, you can make it so with xmodmap: For example, xmodmap -e 'keycode 69 = Multi_key' will make the key with keycode into Multi_key. xev also gives you keycodes, so that part is easy to figure out. As for documentation, these days it seems you can find the compose key combinations in files called /usr/share/X11/locale/*/Compose these days, at least on one Ubuntu system I regularly use. - Harald