From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Andrew Pennebaker <andrew.pennebaker@gmail.com>
Cc: 30331@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#30331: Neither Emacs nor Vim nor Nano handle ligature literal insertion well
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2018 14:13:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1ei3FQ-00021m-GQ@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHXt_SV2P_ieU+UNHx8QoGX9CfoT38BoO01u9Er4dVqqm2Bxyw@mail.gmail.com> (message from Andrew Pennebaker on Fri, 2 Feb 2018 16:31:05 -0600)
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> However, traditional text editors
> including Emacs, Vim, and Nano are evidently NOT able to handle a literal æ
> rune insertion, and tend to raise a generic error message when the text
> expander application attempts to insert this key.
I'd expect that Quail input methods could handle this for Emacs. They
notice when you enter a' and convert it to á, so they could notice ae
and convert it to æ.
When you want separate a and e, you'd type another e.
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-02 22:31 Neither Emacs nor Vim nor Nano handle ligature literal insertion well Andrew Pennebaker
2018-02-02 23:38 ` bug#30331: " Alan Third
2018-02-02 23:58 ` Stephen Berman
2018-02-03 8:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-03 9:56 ` Lifepillar
2018-02-03 19:13 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
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