From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ken Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: how to input Eszett =?UTF-8?B?KCfDnycpPw==?= Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:24:26 -0500 Message-ID: <4ED7AA3A.3060804@mousecar.com> References: <877h2ht83x.fsf@web.de> Reply-To: gebser@mousecar.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1322756684 29718 80.91.229.12 (1 Dec 2011 16:24:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 16:24:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: michael_heerdegen@web.de To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 01 17:24:40 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1RW9RA-0001AJ-I1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:24:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45034 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RW9R9-000445-Oh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:24:39 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:43924) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RW9R5-00043z-Hi for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:24:36 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RW9R4-0003NR-B9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:24:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mout.perfora.net ([74.208.4.195]:64697) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RW9R2-0003N0-Lq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:24:34 -0500 Original-Received: from dellap.mousecar.net (dsl093-011-016.cle1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.93.11.16]) by mrelay.perfora.net (node=mrus3) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0Mb8Z1-1RFzE035Df-00K6ob; Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:24:30 -0500 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20110928) In-Reply-To: <877h2ht83x.fsf@web.de> X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:BVaVsGhdP20lgfOiEbsD6XKfmV8Fg9cZTQGeB1TKLwy APMnaUwrEX6GcWEVMBoBZwu/FwMDAFFyJkk1DegC0InhTElOO2 Rvk82KIe2g4qfw/05S7XyEA5PRr+WyRbZh7KMisrlqWEBdvx3M iiDfd7RIFnYveGb4aEWxetS6yKXnYUyXhBzbv/EZB/01i+yGDH vgjAhsonAtPx3xhifS2j+7Skpztm9yDBKiPnpD+1XjPEYAH6WS f88q/yLUUlplcRsooipb4qCy3hHRDI+ufm+OuqiOyJEIryx/0p qKoPU6En8645WSyiliSZRUVNiyv9gg4Da3cJ5fSliesB2nXsBq sklMv7JS/X9NFItqe3/nAq9habpTe9SFYLTEMbuTP X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 74.208.4.195 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:83109 Archived-At: 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