Re: what mode?: double-quote yields nothing until next keystroke; how to turn off?

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

"Daniel B." <daniel76@yahoo.com> writes:

> --- David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> "Daniel B." <daniel76@yahoo.com> writes:
>> 
>> > Somehow I keep accidentally getting Emacs into a mode 
>> > in which a double-quote keystroke yields nothing until
>> >
>> > I press another key, at which time Emacs inserts the 
>> > two characters I meant (or one character composed from
>> >
>> > them).
>> >
>> > What mode is this?
>> 
>> C-\ runs the command toggle-input-method ...
>
> That doesn't seem to be the mode I'm encountering.
>
> 1. Typing C-\ prompts me for an input method name.

Huh?  Doesn't here.  Not when called without prefix argument.

> 3. With an input method enabled by C-\ (at least using
> the "ucs" and "spanish-prefix" methods), Emacs
> displays
> the first character (underlined) as soon as I type it.
> The symptom I was experiencing is that the display 
> doesn't change at all until I type the next character.

The default would be latin-1-prefix usually, and that has exactly the
described behavior.

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