From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "B. T. Raven" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Entering vowels with macrons Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 16:15:09 -0600 Message-ID: <7JydnTzAyp9t6OXWnZ2dnUVZ_gednZ2d@sysmatrix.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1266187253 5344 80.91.229.12 (14 Feb 2010 22:40:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 22:40:53 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 14 23:40:51 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1Ngn8z-0000Tw-PL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Feb 2010 23:40:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52913 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ngn8z-0001Ig-8W for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Feb 2010 17:40:49 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news1.google.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.sysmatrix.net!news.sysmatrix.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 16:15:11 -0600 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: X-No-Archive: yes Original-Lines: 19 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.73.133.29 Original-X-Trace: sv3-04sB5Kh3mqHE1to+S/g1kuG/tj1xtAhkky1snPxbI7aaBY9J3dxF13DTzhBkZKF+OztaLfd7EVYvasd!LIo1919YpGsMoAQHDR1qrBJscU5YymOzRUCB+G4jvj6aIQRrzndgDH+WxFZtAytlQmtS1BFYRXgC!yPv52OKDjgt0tKu8iE6kqAz7FZFO2g== Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@sysmatrix.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:176794 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-Gmane-Expiry: 2010-02-28 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:71863 Archived-At: Sean McAfee wrote: > To my surprise, I haven't been able to find a convenient way to enter > vowels with macrons above. Actually, the only way I've found to do so, > other than by copying and pasting, is to have the Unicode codepoints > handy and use ucs-insert. > > Am I missing some way to enter these characters? If not, what would be > the best way to add this capability for my own use? I'm guessing that > would probably be to add the characters somewhere on the C-x 8 command > tree. C-x 8 _ is already occupied by the two characters FEMININE > ORDINAL INDICATOR and MASCULINE ORDINAL INDICATOR, which I didn't know > existed before now and could easily do without. Macroned vowels are part of the latin-4-postfix input method. C-x ret C-\ latin-4-postfix will switch to this method. C-\ to toggle to former method. āeīōū ĀĒĪŌŪ