From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stephen Berman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#30331: Neither Emacs nor Vim nor Nano handle ligature literal insertion well Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2018 00:58:51 +0100 Message-ID: <87607fkkp0.fsf@gmx.net> References: <20180202233821.GB9047@breton.holly.idiocy.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1517615921 19450 195.159.176.226 (2 Feb 2018 23:58:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2018 23:58:41 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: 30331@debbugs.gnu.org To: Alan Third Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 03 00:58:37 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ehlDg-0003GE-Ga for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Sat, 03 Feb 2018 00:58:52 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20180202233821.GB9047@breton.holly.idiocy.org> (Alan Third's message of "Fri, 2 Feb 2018 23:38:21 +0000") X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:MfKRESwYAvAigl8fJ2547p8PkfEUrQ8bghWHgLchXl5XYSja7xU egMChmNqAZSbMNXgcuTUovXeIcaNHm/sWUya34ZnCb6z5D0xG+MxtDe39m0zbvSmaoWeyc0 0srNrZWvNP0iVg5WuZfFakF2I0yxVtZI3BRE7nvmwqDhxzy4V4raDg8DgYN3DHsXAlrDBct yZFDEXGPbynq1fOM4FDQw== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:Rh2OCVFD1gs=:LrcMQRd393fGtArV0UxYPq ekbEAHqvDWPNzHPV1AFqNNuJeebHeaoZ7ytcmcF9FmEO0UWRl1UO32y3SaLhRil/qzRCnP3Hg n2nq+gEiyOwm3p3MOpaKbpSpW5t2KNDBv3UKYAqc5usdJLdNWtsjTT11N5YW0qlbEcl/GQhA1 KvRPIyGmR95wdmzyHhn3a8vOwJiFlxP797aiPbsCrXXR4FUfhZBL8WzuBKpKbqjzW/ugzo00+ W/i06thn8L+MY7evprJURyNkNo78SPQ+qUBrpHAuvq527JwO4XpIJCtQxuKZTVOAgXEbukpdW 6mZDqKjRgEdN13p1cjPO9UWmzPPXWL7QL/qK+0Qf6fvm86qX9jt3X2hpXGs3Y8hulH0ChD4g4 Bx5WavcexWh6z4iTMtcN3b9/a6rR/1+pMJcBfFnbgxsbyS3zhepMG+Da3GLzMM80NyfnFL4Ll dGpiwEr7E0YK/wKoRh2tb+KmXK2Fz98pes8G07s6KVMCd/7cpfnZONcL8BzLnRVZpSG1NOpEG jDt2hv/hxJAUwxry5S6k7pG6GAEwfBlER9UC1iFsL3bSwVJC4O8a6AaulzEe3Rp7E0AjYcQwy heox+7hdEIdEHlkZbzO7gLu+nAcRt33gpze7lycgmdCZu5c/Ib89bgKlxzKJFZImYztrG+POV TyhJtZ8lMGWu6XUiJMhNTQoJ/0W1zKjGJY9a9l8WrG85n3elTfcHh0eynDPyVmmtwM6Wf3olJ APu7mimkXMd6Y6ExAXs9wQvb7bOw/wPE9XGmxkbiRPfDd8tGI84ILSLFXK+oscby+smWlnP/ X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:142829 Archived-At: On Fri, 2 Feb 2018 23:38:21 +0000 Alan Third wrote: > On Fri, Feb 02, 2018 at 04:31:05PM -0600, Andrew Pennebaker wrote: >> I am able to work around this limitation in most applications by >> configuring TextExpander (macOS, Windows) or autokey (Linux) to match the >> keyboard sequence "ae" and replace this with "=C3=A6". This allows most = UTF-8 >> compatible graphical software, from Web browsers to document editors, to >> correctly insert =C3=A6 in place of ae. However, traditional text editors >> including Emacs, Vim, and Nano are evidently NOT able to handle a litera= l =C3=A6 >> rune insertion, and tend to raise a generic error message when the text >> expander application attempts to insert this key. > > I=E2=80=99m not sure about the use of TextExpander as I=E2=80=99ve never = heard of it > before, but Emacs on macOS can handle the insertion of =C3=A6 using alt= =E2=80=90=E2=80=99, > but you might need to change the default binding of the alt key > (https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsForMacOS#toc30). > > Aside from that Emacs allows you to enter =C3=A6 using: > > C-x 8 RET LATIN SMALL LETTER AE > > It=E2=80=99s a bit of a handful though, I know,=20 A somewhat smaller handful is `C-x RET e6' (mentioned, as is the above Unicode name method, in the *Help* you get by typing `C-u C-x =3D' on the character =C3=A6). > but you can enter all sorts of > things: > > =EF=AC=84 =EF=AC=81 =F0=9F=99=B2 > > You should be able to configure abbrev-mode to automatically convert > ae to =C3=A6.=20 You can also do that by using the norwegian-postfix input method (entered by typing `C-x RET C-\ no TAB p TAB'). Steve Berman