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From: ken <gebser@mousecar.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Cc: michael_heerdegen@web.de
Subject: Re: how to input Eszett ('ß')?
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:24:26 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ED7AA3A.3060804@mousecar.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877h2ht83x.fsf@web.de>

On 11/30/2011 08:04 PM Michael Heerdegen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> if you have to type a lot of German characters, you can use a German
> input method.  E.g. try
> 
>   C-x RET C-\ german-prefix RET
> 
> then you can use "a to get ä or "s for ß etc.
> 
> 
> - Michael.
> 

Thanks, Michael.  Great thing.  But then how does one then return to the 
previous input method?

Note: when I do Mx- describe-input-method, the minibuffer prompt says

Describe input method (default, current choice):

If I then hit RET, I get Debugger telling me "No input method is 
activated now".

The buffer I'm doing this in (if it matters) is utf-8 encoded.  This 
emacs version is 21.4.1-- yes, old, but the latest distributed in 
RH/CentOS 5.7 (which is, yes, another issue... for another time), and 
AFAIK, uncustomized from that distribution.

tnx++,
ken



  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-01 16:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.1680.1322673740.798.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-12-01  1:04 ` how to input Eszett ('ß')? Michael Heerdegen
2011-12-01 16:24   ` ken [this message]
2011-12-01 17:28     ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]   ` <mailman.1772.1322756677.798.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-12-01 19:29     ` Michael Heerdegen
2011-11-30 17:24 Tom Roche
2011-11-30 17:53 ` Memnon Anon
2011-11-30 17:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-11-30 18:08 ` Drew Adams
2011-12-01  0:06   ` Peter Dyballa

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