From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Entering Unicode characters Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 22:12:09 +0200 Message-ID: <8337tl2zc6.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83twmkkv16.fsf@gnu.org> <83h9i13aly.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1453752725 20202 80.91.229.3 (25 Jan 2016 20:12:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 20:12:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ahyatt@gmail.com, johnw@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca To: Vivek Dasmohapatra Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 25 21:12:04 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1aNnUY-0003ze-NT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Jan 2016 21:12:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40642 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aNnUU-0001F0-WF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Jan 2016 15:11:59 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33315) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aNnUR-0001Eq-CS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jan 2016 15:11:56 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aNnUQ-0007rM-L2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jan 2016 15:11:55 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:44464) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aNnUN-0007r6-Cm; Mon, 25 Jan 2016 15:11:51 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:4884 helo=HOME-C4E4A596F7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aNnUF-00089i-TY; Mon, 25 Jan 2016 15:11:44 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Vivek Dasmohapatra on Mon, 25 Jan 2016 17:20:38 +0000 (GMT)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:198810 Archived-At: > Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 17:20:38 +0000 (GMT) > From: Vivek Dasmohapatra > cc: rms@gnu.org, ahyatt@gmail.com, johnw@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, > emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > Indeed, such a feature would be a welcome addition. > > For situations where xcompose is not availble, why not mimic > what xcompose does, albeit with a different prefix? > > AltGr " e → ë > AltGr / o → ø > AltGr t e a → ☕ Sorry, I don't understand what you are proposing concretely. When xcompose is not available, what does Emacs see if you press, e.g., AltGr " e? (You can use "C-h l" to find the answer.) Does it at all know that you pressed AltGr and not the left Alt (i.e. Meta) key? And in any case, how is the above different from Emacs input methods? There, too, a combination of keys produces a character that is not on the keyboard. Thanks.