From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: TeX input method Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 15:17:59 +0200 Message-ID: <858xjxzgfs.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1159881579 19788 80.91.229.2 (3 Oct 2006 13:19:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:19:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 03 15:19:33 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GUkAX-0000fj-6E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Oct 2006 15:18:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GUkAW-0002wr-Hc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Oct 2006 09:18:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GUkA4-0002oa-BW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Oct 2006 09:18:16 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GUkA3-0002o9-Ml for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Oct 2006 09:18:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GUkA3-0002nx-Jz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Oct 2006 09:18:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GUkGG-0005CW-QQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Oct 2006 09:24:40 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1GUkA2-0003Iw-T4; Tue, 03 Oct 2006 09:18:15 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id BCC481C39502; Tue, 3 Oct 2006 15:17:59 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Stefan Monnier In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon\, 02 Oct 2006 15\:40\:47 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:60390 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > I like the TeX input method and tend to turn it on in ever more buffers. > But as I do that I start to bump into cases where it annoys me. > Overall it's a pretty discrete input method, but I recently got annoyed by > some of the keys it uses. > > I'm sure other people have other pet peeves, but here are my two main > problems and suggestion to fix each. > > - First problem: ~ is mapped to the non-breaking space. It actually took me > a while to understand why my ~ key didn't insert a tilde: TeX usually only > fiddles with key sequences, so you get to see visually that thjere's > something going on (because of the underscored text, and the echo area > output). I suggest to leave ~ alone and use `\ SPC' for nbsp. That is strictly wrong, since `\ ' means a breakable space of standard width in TeX. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum