From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Hansen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Special character Emacs Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 22:29:08 +0200 Organization: disorganized Message-ID: <871w390z1n.fsf@localhorst.mine.nu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1212871240 20436 80.91.229.12 (7 Jun 2008 20:40:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 20:40:40 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 07 22:41:23 2008 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 4.50) id 1K55Dz-00086c-V9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 22:41:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53594 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K55DD-0004Af-1f for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 16:40:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K55Cp-00049d-Pg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 16:40:08 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K55Co-00048z-7A for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 16:40:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51657 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K55Cn-00048j-K3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 16:40:05 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:38871 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K55Cn-0003B6-4J for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 16:40:05 -0400 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1K55Ck-0001J3-GL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 20:40:02 +0000 Original-Received: from e178028044.adsl.alicedsl.de ([85.178.28.44]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 20:40:02 +0000 Original-Received: from david.hansen by e178028044.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 20:40:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: e178028044.adsl.alicedsl.de Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:iNmQxoCmTmaZgkZXYsOTdWTttqE= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:54589 Archived-At: On Sat, 7 Jun 2008 07:43:31 -0700 (PDT) Andreas Wittmann wrote: > i'm using Emacs 21.4.1 with ubuntu hardy, today i established that it > isn't possible for me to use the '^'-sign in emacs. That sounds more like an X problem to me. Long time ago since I used a German layout, but I remember that there where problems getting X to make this pesky key work. > Especially i ned this character very often when working with LaTeX or > R. Can someone give me a hint what to do here? Seriously, switch to an US layout. TeX with a German layout gives you cancer in the hand. All these \[{}] are just impossible to type. Auctex and ispell work well with `"u' style umlauts. David