* Problem with <dead-acute>
@ 2009-05-10 7:09 Adolfo De Unanue
2009-05-10 9:57 ` Peter Dyballa
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Adolfo De Unanue @ 2009-05-10 7:09 UTC (permalink / raw
To: help-gnu-emacs
Hi everyone!
I was working ok writing my thesis dissertation in GNU/Emacs from CVS.
For some (stupid) reason (I was boring, and I want try something new)
I switched from Debian Lenny to Ubuntu Jaunty Jalopy. I downloaded
again the GNU/Emacs, compiled and... when I try to start writing
"radiación" in the acute (i.e. ó ) I got "<dead-acute is undefined>"
error ...
I googled for an answer, some advice erasing .xinput_d directory
(doesn't work), others, commenting all the lines with "utf-8" in
the .emacs file (doesn't work either) and some blamed SCIM (i
uninstalled and/or stopped the deamon, and doesn't work)... finally
someone advice put (require 'iso-transl) in the .emacs and that worked!
But I have doubts about this... Whats happening? Someone else has this
problem? Is this a problem of Ubuntu?
Thank's in advance
Adolfo
PS. Soon I will return to Debian...:)
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* Re: Problem with <dead-acute>
2009-05-10 7:09 Problem with <dead-acute> Adolfo De Unanue
@ 2009-05-10 9:57 ` Peter Dyballa
2009-05-10 10:16 ` Adolfo De Unanue
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From: Peter Dyballa @ 2009-05-10 9:57 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Adolfo De Unanue; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs
Am 10.05.2009 um 09:09 schrieb Adolfo De Unanue:
> finally someone advice put (require 'iso-transl) in the .emacs and
> that worked!
This also works for me, in Mac OS X.
>
> But I have doubts about this... Whats happening?
A change ...
> Someone else has this problem?
Yes, definitely.
> Is this a problem of Ubuntu?
No, it looks to be general. Maybe it's explained somewhere in the
documentation ...
It seems that nothing is loaded automatically because there is a
choice betwee iso-transl and iso-acc. Both seem to provide an input
method with C-x 8 or Alt-<accent> prefix, but what you and I are
doing is just pressing a dead key (^, ´, `, ~, ¨) for the accent and
then another key to "compose" the accented character. And there is no
Alt key used in this! And according to documentation it seems be
appropriate for 8-bit encodings, so it should be pretty useless in
UTF-8. I reported this bug when it was introduced, but the bug seems
to be classified as a feature ... Maybe it's just because the file is
auto-loaded though pretty useless.
--
Greetings
Pete 0
%-/\_//
(*)(*)
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* Re: Problem with <dead-acute>
2009-05-10 9:57 ` Peter Dyballa
@ 2009-05-10 10:16 ` Adolfo De Unanue
2009-05-10 14:45 ` Peter Dyballa
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Adolfo De Unanue @ 2009-05-10 10:16 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Peter Dyballa; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs
Thanks!
So it is a feature (!?)...ok then...
Very enlightening!
Adolfo
El Sun, 10 May 2009 11:57:24 +0200
Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> escribió:
>
> Am 10.05.2009 um 09:09 schrieb Adolfo De Unanue:
>
> > finally someone advice put (require 'iso-transl) in the .emacs and
> > that worked!
>
> This also works for me, in Mac OS X.
>
> >
> > But I have doubts about this... Whats happening?
>
> A change ...
>
> > Someone else has this problem?
>
> Yes, definitely.
>
> > Is this a problem of Ubuntu?
>
>
> No, it looks to be general. Maybe it's explained somewhere in the
> documentation ...
>
>
> It seems that nothing is loaded automatically because there is a
> choice betwee iso-transl and iso-acc. Both seem to provide an input
> method with C-x 8 or Alt-<accent> prefix, but what you and I are
> doing is just pressing a dead key (^, ´, `, ~, ¨) for the accent and
> then another key to "compose" the accented character. And there is
> no Alt key used in this! And according to documentation it seems be
> appropriate for 8-bit encodings, so it should be pretty useless in
> UTF-8. I reported this bug when it was introduced, but the bug seems
> to be classified as a feature ... Maybe it's just because the file
> is auto-loaded though pretty useless.
>
> --
> Greetings
>
> Pete 0
> %-/\_//
> (*)(*)
>
>
>
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* Re: Problem with <dead-acute>
2009-05-10 10:16 ` Adolfo De Unanue
@ 2009-05-10 14:45 ` Peter Dyballa
0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Peter Dyballa @ 2009-05-10 14:45 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Adolfo De Unanue; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs
Am 10.05.2009 um 12:16 schrieb Adolfo De Unanue:
> So it is a feature (!?)
Not in my opinion.
--
Greetings
Pete
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
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