From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Input method or help feature needed Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:25:11 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1298064424 26461 80.91.229.12 (18 Feb 2011 21:27:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 21:27:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 18 22:26:59 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PqXqt-0005yH-Hh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 22:26:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54698 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PqXqs-0003Bv-I2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:26:58 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=35907 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PqXpC-0002BR-4B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:25:15 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PqXp9-0002x6-Su for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:25:13 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:38302) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PqXp9-0002x2-RU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:25:11 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PqXp9-0003zH-NP; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:25:11 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Andreas Schwab on Thu, 17 Feb 2011 23:50:25 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:136195 Archived-At: The X11 compose feature actually has pretty easy to remember ways to input such characters. For example, the dotless i can be generated by <.> ( is usually on Shift-RControl). 1. Does it also have an easy way to enter the characters that you use so rarely you would not remember such a sequence? 2. Could we make sequences work in Emacs on a console? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org, www.gnu.org