From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: mikew2801@gmail.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Inputting characters with specialist diacritic marks in emacs Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 05:30:00 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <571eb6f1-614e-4ec0-9c55-bbe1fbfb9ddc@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1453212695 8419 80.91.229.3 (19 Jan 2016 14:11:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 14:11:35 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 19 15:11:35 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aLX0O-0005Qg-S2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2016 15:11:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37219 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aLX0O-0004iP-7A for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2016 09:11:32 -0500 X-Received: by 10.107.16.8 with SMTP id y8mr29046433ioi.15.1453210200978; Tue, 19 Jan 2016 05:30:00 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.50.108.20 with SMTP id hg20mr310932igb.5.1453210200962; Tue, 19 Jan 2016 05:30:00 -0800 (PST) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!o2no4433140iga.0!news-out.google.com!l1ni808igd.0!nntp.google.com!o2no4433132iga.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=212.186.12.249; posting-account=GUco-goAAABZDdu0FqTZ_WyjboVK0UbB Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.186.12.249 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 13:30:00 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:216485 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 09:11:21 -0500 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:108776 Archived-At: Hello, I am a linguist who works particularly with Indic languages. I am trying to= do most of my work in emacs, but I am having problems using characters wit= h diacritic marks (for instance =C4=81, =C4=AB and so on) which are commonl= y used to transliterate old Indic languages such as Sanskrit and Pali. My makeshift solution is to use the "global-set-key" function to bind indiv= idual characters to keys, e.g., (global-set-key (kbd "C-c y") (lambda () (interactive) (insert "=C3=B1"))) (global-set-key (kbd "C-c t") (lambda () (interactive) (insert "=E1=B9=AD")= )) (global-set-key (kbd "C-c d") (lambda () (interactive) (insert "=E1=B8=8D")= )) This is not ideal since it's quite difficult to type these bindings. In Lin= ux I use Ibus mappings which involve double-tapping a similar key (e.g., wh= en I type "a-a" I get "=C4=81", when I type "i-i" I get "=C4=AB" and so on. The question is - is there a way to make similar key-bindings in Emacs? Sub= lime facilitates this, but I'd rather stay in emacs and emacs 24 refuses to= work with Ibus (I've tried other help forums on Ibus/emacs to no avail). Any ideas/comments would most appreciated! As you can tell I'm very new to = emacs. Mike