From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai Grossjohann Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: German keyboard key bindings? Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 21:11:26 +0000 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87wu8vywsh.fsf@emptyhost.emptydomain.de> References: <2003Dec16.212444@a0.complang.tuwien.ac.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1071696073 14369 80.91.224.253 (17 Dec 2003 21:21:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 21:21:13 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 17 22:21:09 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AWj6S-0004XR-00 for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2003 22:21:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AWk2v-00089R-QV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2003 17:21:33 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news2.telebyte.nl!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!213-203-244-156.kunde.vdserver.DE!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213-203-244-156.kunde.vdserver.de (213.203.244.156) Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1071695499 6680154 213.203.244.156 ([73968] 10430) User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:EW/gwJiLYFkzCoVP0IiA4Ik7Zos= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:119458 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 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 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:15395 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:15395 ulrich@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Ulrich Neumerkel) writes: > To me this seems to be some kind of boot strap problem: In order to > mention ä one needs to be in a Latin-1 language environment etc. Well, C-x 8 " a seems easy enough to type if you need that character. Or, C-u C-\ latin-1-prefix RET " a C-\. > But the point would be that this key definiton is even present in > other environments. Since ä is a Latin-1 character, what's the point of making this "key" available to non-Latin-1 users? > (global-set-key [(control ?\344)] 'undo) > (global-set-key [(meta ?\344)] 'dabbrev-expand) > (global-set-key [(meta shift ?\344)] 'dabbrev-last-expansion) ;; -*- coding: latin-1; -*- (global-set-key (kbd "C-ä") 'dabbrev-expand) Does this work? Kai