From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: accented letters ( typing in ) Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 00:25:07 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87bnz8kh3n.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> References: <1389982848501-310678.post@n5.nabble.com> 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 1390087822 3523 80.91.229.3 (18 Jan 2014 23:30:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 23:30:22 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 19 00:30:28 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1W4fLP-0002DS-6k for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Jan 2014 00:30:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44623 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W4fLO-0007M0-IU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Jan 2014 18:30:26 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: VVbyYd/iFZoeWNmD9i++cQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:AK1AZr4tIw5ELU/8mGkc/UraLbA= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:203225 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:95494 Archived-At: "Axel E. Retif" writes: > As a matter of fact, I have two keyboard layouts: > «English (US, international with dead keys)» and > «Spanish». I prefer to use the English layout because > I have easier access to some symbols (|, \, etc.) > with it. I'm glad you say this, because this is what I always said, the US layout is better, in particular for programmers. But I still need to write in Swedish now and then, and I can't switch back and forth because that would make me sea sick. So for the Swedish chars I setup the compose key. The benefit of the compose key is that it works in the ttys *and* in X, so it is a system-wide solution. And I think this is the way the compose key should be used: for really exotic chars (which are used extremely seldom, but when so you can "compose" them in a logical way), *or* for the hybrid situation I just mentioned. In the OP's case, the compose key would be a tedious workaround. (But a solution is a solution, for sure.) -- underground experts united: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573