From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Yuri Khan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: keyboard macro Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 01:17:30 +0700 Message-ID: References: <1048826531.375111.1382373351593.open-xchange@app02.ox.hosteurope.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1382379464 6425 80.91.229.3 (21 Oct 2013 18:17:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 18:17:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" To: Christof Spitz Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 21 20:17:53 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VYK35-0003Ti-MC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Oct 2013 20:17:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41109 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VYK35-0005GW-73 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Oct 2013 14:17:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37141) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VYK2o-0005Dv-Ch for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Oct 2013 14:17:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VYK2l-0005ws-OG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Oct 2013 14:17:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-qe0-x232.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400d:c02::232]:53364) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VYK2l-0005wl-Ig for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Oct 2013 14:17:31 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-qe0-f50.google.com with SMTP id 1so3999999qee.23 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2013 11:17:30 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=eeCXEOiN9jzJpPb7Mf2bdINfDSAjJ4CcZxg6jVwVlzc=; b=Ew0a1/Ovme+sqqSph2IdFRulTwp58kOK76YYD1BChGI1WoS9e/D6WvdkzUimGc5/+t NH1XPSvo8GO++meZrDVZ2y2LajwMwiJmhqhCKxwkJYt/eoitpiRrjZduEu8/qaI3ZXKB RTr/NlUNndhqSJ3Z/oA1QwfpQlefL2yTpUyFUHTjNlJXyS+j4jHRPMoVZHGCKfNhDGZy Ll35QYIQF8uHvsweO4P0rpNAgqrQ7ICTgRkf5u6Xf6ChgrZot2a0ovfF5B8s4Fs8pZ1x BXL/pq6ksN6GiytM7dSqZrPU2muMxUxrU8vULa9puMChNWL/DqqA4SKULgqqEOXSZ9d2 FZgA== X-Received: by 10.49.131.39 with SMTP id oj7mr24138624qeb.40.1382379450716; Mon, 21 Oct 2013 11:17:30 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.96.179.36 with HTTP; Mon, 21 Oct 2013 11:17:30 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1048826531.375111.1382373351593.open-xchange@app02.ox.hosteurope.de> X-Google-Sender-Auth: hMtTU1YAqCyAT-zdM2iaGmYv1iw X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:400d:c02::232 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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 Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:94136 Archived-At: On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 11:35 PM, Christof Spitz wrote: > I have to write special characters for transliteration of a non-european > language (devanagari) in Emacs. These include characters like =C4=81,=C4= =AB,=C5=AB,=C5=9B,=E1=B9=A3 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 p= rogram > called "AutoHotKey". I defined macros so that, for example, when I write = "..a" > it will insert "=C4=81" 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 =E2=80=9Csetxkbmap -layout "us,in" -variant ",deva" -options "grp:caps_toggle,grp_led:caps"=E2=80=9D will help a lot.