From: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: not quite understanding input methods
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2021 12:44:32 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP_d_8Ud+vN5agnZPdJK=tZ603XzgxBkUk7-260uymRJxRSxJQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <231adc63-77f0-037a-365c-28db98f684cf@piermont.com>
On Tue, 31 Aug 2021 at 00:24, Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com> wrote:
> I would like to prefix my translations with a special character. I've
> mapped my caps lock key to send F19 (I don't use the caps lock key ever
> and using it as a compose key seems reasonable) and I've set Emacs to
> insert a special character for me when I hit that key, like so:
>
> (global-set-key (kbd "<f19>")
> (lambda (n)
> (interactive "p")
> (self-insert-command n ?⎄)))
>
> (quail-define-rules
> ("⎄gl" ?λ)
> )
Blunt question: Are you trying to solve this to get a better
understanding of the Emacs input subsystem (in which case please
ignore this), or do you just want something done? Because, if you want
Compose, it’s right there almost out-of-the-box in XKB.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-01 5:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-30 17:24 not quite understanding input methods Perry E. Metzger
2021-08-30 17:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-08-30 17:45 ` Perry E. Metzger
2021-08-30 18:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-08-30 18:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-30 18:34 ` Perry E. Metzger
2021-08-30 18:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-30 18:43 ` Perry E. Metzger
2021-08-30 18:37 ` Perry E. Metzger
2021-08-30 19:00 ` Perry E. Metzger
2021-08-30 19:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-30 19:13 ` Perry E. Metzger
2021-08-30 19:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-08-30 19:26 ` Perry E. Metzger
2021-08-30 19:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-30 20:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-08-30 19:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-30 20:29 ` André A. Gomes
2021-09-01 5:44 ` Yuri Khan [this message]
2021-09-01 7:23 ` Juri Linkov
2021-09-01 7:43 ` Yuri Khan
2021-09-01 8:37 ` tomas
2021-09-01 9:14 ` Joost Kremers
2021-09-01 13:17 ` Perry E. Metzger
2021-09-01 12:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-01 12:35 ` João Távora
2021-09-01 13:19 ` André A. Gomes
2021-09-01 14:05 ` João Távora
2021-09-01 13:03 ` André A. Gomes
2021-09-01 13:02 ` Perry E. Metzger
2021-09-02 12:00 ` Maxim Nikulin
2021-09-02 13:03 ` Filipp Gunbin
2021-09-01 12:58 ` Perry E. Metzger
2021-09-01 12:51 ` Perry E. Metzger
2021-09-01 13:29 ` Partially answering my own question (was Re: not quite understanding input methods) Perry E. Metzger
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