From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: m_mommer@yahoo.com (Mario S. Mommer) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: x-symbol? Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:50:45 +0200 Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany Message-ID: <87pqzka40a.fsf@padme.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291944660 4032 80.91.229.12 (10 Dec 2010 01:31:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 01:31:00 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 10 02:30:56 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQrp1-0001Bo-A2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 02:30:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35514 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQrow-0007vL-7w for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:30:50 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!kanaga.switch.ch!switch.ch!news.belwue.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!news.urz.uni-heidelberg.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: g226132003.adsl.alicedsl.de Original-X-Trace: news.urz.uni-heidelberg.de 1277128246 3565 92.226.132.3 (21 Jun 2010 13:50:46 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.urz.uni-heidelberg.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 21 Jun 2010 13:50:46 GMT Smtp: iwr User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:0GsJ3A0gF2bYwg6AfV7Ttwh+Waw= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:179138 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:09:05 -0500 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:77134 Archived-At: Hi, One of the things I use emacs for is writing LaTeX documents, and besides auctex and reftex, there is one package that is very important and useful to me: x-symbol. The bad news is that the package has been orphaned some while ago, and is suffering from bitrot. This is really unfortunate, because x-symbol has two features that I have not found anywhere else: an input method based on shortcuts and modifiers for quite a few latex symbols, and optic sugar for many symbols, so that e.g. \alpha appear as the greek letter alpha on screen. For some reason, I find these two features really help a lot. My questions are: - does anyone have a version of x-symbol that runs on emacs 23 and is willing to share it here? - Does anyone know of an alternative? Thanks, Mario