From: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
To: Christof Spitz <cs@lotsawa.de>
Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: keyboard macro
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 01:17:30 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP_d_8V5BQELZGfX7STvLp_h6Bd0qBd=RDW+bY8URTxstc+dyw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1048826531.375111.1382373351593.open-xchange@app02.ox.hosteurope.de>
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 11:35 PM, Christof Spitz <cs@lotsawa.de> wrote:
> I have to write special characters for transliteration of a non-european
> language (devanagari) in Emacs. These include characters like ā,ī,ū,ś,ṣ etc.
> Basically this has become easy since Emacs supports Unicode. The question is how
> to enter those special characters easily. In Windows, I use a scripting program
> called "AutoHotKey". I defined macros so that, for example, when I write "..a"
> it will insert "ā" etc.
It never ceases to amaze me how far people are willing to go just to
avoid using an appropriate OS-level keyboard layout. In your case,
probably, the command “setxkbmap -layout "us,in" -variant ",deva"
-options "grp:caps_toggle,grp_led:caps"” will help a lot.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-21 18:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-21 16:35 keyboard macro Christof Spitz
2013-10-21 17:26 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.4410.1382376390.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-10-21 17:39 ` Rustom Mody
2013-10-21 18:17 ` Yuri Khan [this message]
2013-10-21 18:25 ` Yuri Khan
[not found] ` <mailman.4414.1382379457.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-10-22 3:48 ` X keyboard settings (was keyboard macro) Rustom Mody
2013-10-22 4:11 ` Yuri Khan
2013-10-22 5:58 ` Joost Kremers
2013-10-22 11:59 ` Jürgen Sauermann
2013-10-22 13:02 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.4532.1382529319.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-10-24 1:02 ` Rustom Mody
2013-10-24 12:35 ` Jürgen Sauermann
[not found] ` <mailman.4607.1382618163.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-10-24 17:36 ` Rustom Mody
[not found] <mailman.4404.1382373480.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-10-21 17:00 ` keyboard macro Rustom Mody
2013-10-21 17:59 ` Christof Spitz
2013-10-22 17:38 ` Rustom Mody
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2010-05-28 8:05 Kanhaiya
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