From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Input method or help feature needed Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 20:41:04 +0100 Message-ID: <87vd0imotr.fsf@member.fsf.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1297972676 18343 80.91.229.12 (17 Feb 2011 19:57:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 19:57:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 17 20:57:50 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1Pq9yt-0002YQ-0J for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 20:57:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51288 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pq9jD-0008Fy-4u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:41:27 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=43041 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pq9iu-0008Dt-TQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:41:13 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pq9it-00079K-Eh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:41:08 -0500 Original-Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:53672) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pq9it-000793-CI; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:41:07 -0500 Original-Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.41]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7956120AAB; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:41:06 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from frontend1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:41:06 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=messagingengine.com; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=smtpout; bh=oNeB+s2YbgGG0cKpThRaZSouINQ=; b=uUf5Zcp45+hfrxX5P4VQeTna8Rx9ZWA1w/KKbpF3nP42yRkS9/xH1yAq5NH3q5vIegy1Mu0hjy69RYmTS2hLqEpdgEmshIqSfdHsoHVbft8D9jLWuV7XscdCEjwsB0elCq0VKNNUMFSUEHxO9BF1JPPgmjjHYoy7hUtyXuoZ8zU= X-Sasl-enc: vKmFaWpXW3fqnfKci/d0ntOWcdTTs5sM2ltBnODux2tN 1297971666 Original-Received: from thinkpad (95-88-32-105-dynip.superkabel.de [95.88.32.105]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id A535940859D; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:41:05 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:14:27 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 66.111.4.25 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:136145 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: Hello Richard, > Once in a while I want to enter some character that I know exists in > Unicode, though I know nothing about where to find it. Today it was > the Turkish i without dot. > > It is not easy to find how to enter the character you want. > Can anyone develop a way to make it easier? I think it already is easy. In the buffer with the Turkish text, do M-x set-input-method RET turkish-postfix RET and then M-x describe-input-method RET RET which shows this *Help* buffer: ,---- | Input method: turkish-postfix (mode line indicator:TR<) |=20 | Turkish (T=C3=BCrk=C3=A7e) input method with postfix modifiers. | turkish-latin-3-postfix is an obsolete alias for turkish-postfix. |=20 | Note for I, =C4=B1, =C4=B0, i. |=20 | A^ -> =C3=82 | C, -> =C3=87 | G^ -> =C4=9E | I -> I | i -> =C4=B1 | I. -> =C4=B0 | i. -> i | O" -> =C3=96 | S, -> =C5=9E | U" -> =C3=9C | U^ -> =C3=9B |=20 | Doubling the postfix separates the letter and postfix: e.g. a^^ -> a^ |=20 |=20 | KEY SEQUENCE | ------------ | You can input characters by the following key sequences: | key char [type a key sequence to insert the corresponding character] | --- ---- --- ---- --- ---- --- ---- --- ---- --- ---- --- ---- --- ---- | A^ =C3=82 G^ =C4=9E O" =C3=96 U" =C3=9C a^ =C3=A2 g^ =C4= =9F s, =C5=9F u^ =C3=BB | C, =C3=87 I. =C4=B0 S, =C5=9E U^ =C3=9B c, =C3=A7 o" =C3= =B6 u" =C3=BC |=20 | key character(s) [type a key (sequence) and select one from the list] | --- ------------ | i =C4=B1 i `---- Bye, Tassilo