* Alt+numpad to write special symbols
@ 2009-09-29 0:49 David Capello
2009-09-29 0:57 ` Juanma Barranquero
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From: David Capello @ 2009-09-29 0:49 UTC (permalink / raw
To: emacs-devel
Is there a way to use Alt+numpad to write Unicode
characters in Emacs? Or does it need a patch?
Have someone tried it before?
If there are not a way to pass Alt+numpad keys to OS directly,
I could write a patch for w32. Is someone interested too? Some
suggestion to do this? (maybe a name for a global variable to
customize this behavior, like w32-ignore-alt-numpad, etc.)
Sorry if this mailing list is not the right place to ask this.
More info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Alt_Keycodes
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* Re: Alt+numpad to write special symbols
2009-09-29 0:49 Alt+numpad to write special symbols David Capello
@ 2009-09-29 0:57 ` Juanma Barranquero
[not found] ` <77b6ce390909281815j1600f85by5837ca2bb4b1f7d@mail.gmail.com>
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From: Juanma Barranquero @ 2009-09-29 0:57 UTC (permalink / raw
To: David Capello; +Cc: emacs-devel
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 02:49, David Capello <davidcapello@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a way to use Alt+numpad to write Unicode
> characters in Emacs? Or does it need a patch?
> Have someone tried it before?
Why do you want to use Alt+numpad? You can already type an Unicode
codepoint with `ucs-insert' (bound to C-x 8 RET).
Juanma
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* Fwd: Alt+numpad to write special symbols
[not found] ` <77b6ce390909281815j1600f85by5837ca2bb4b1f7d@mail.gmail.com>
@ 2009-09-29 1:27 ` David Capello
2009-09-29 3:13 ` Stefan Monnier
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From: David Capello @ 2009-09-29 1:27 UTC (permalink / raw
To: emacs-devel
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Capello <davidcapello@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 10:15 PM
Subject: Re: Alt+numpad to write special symbols
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 9:57 PM, Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 02:49, David Capello <davidcapello@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is there a way to use Alt+numpad to write Unicode
>> characters in Emacs? Or does it need a patch?
>> Have someone tried it before?
>
> Why do you want to use Alt+numpad?
It's a long history, but basically because in all other programs
you can use Alt+numpad.
> You can already type an Unicode
> codepoint with `ucs-insert' (bound to C-x 8 RET).
Thanks about that. I did not know about ucs-insert, but
still I need Alt+numpad behavior.
Another thing: I think it is impossible to emulate
the Alt+keypad just with elisp code because I need
to catch something like "Alt-unpressed" event.
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* Re: Fwd: Alt+numpad to write special symbols
2009-09-29 1:27 ` Fwd: " David Capello
@ 2009-09-29 3:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-29 23:12 ` Juri Linkov
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From: Stefan Monnier @ 2009-09-29 3:13 UTC (permalink / raw
To: David Capello; +Cc: emacs-devel
> Another thing: I think it is impossible to emulate
> the Alt+keypad just with elisp code because I need
> to catch something like "Alt-unpressed" event.
If you mean that "the alt-numpad" feature works by recognizing the
"alt-unpressed" event as the sign that you've finished entering the
number, then indeed, it can't be done in Elisp right now and would
require changes to provide access to the up/down events for key presses
(I actually did code up such a change at some point in the past, to
play with it: it might be doable without introducing too many problems).
Stefan
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* Re: Fwd: Alt+numpad to write special symbols
2009-09-29 3:13 ` Stefan Monnier
@ 2009-09-29 23:12 ` Juri Linkov
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From: Juri Linkov @ 2009-09-29 23:12 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Stefan Monnier; +Cc: David Capello, emacs-devel
>> Another thing: I think it is impossible to emulate
>> the Alt+keypad just with elisp code because I need
>> to catch something like "Alt-unpressed" event.
>
> If you mean that "the alt-numpad" feature works by recognizing the
> "alt-unpressed" event as the sign that you've finished entering the
> number, then indeed, it can't be done in Elisp right now and would
> require changes to provide access to the up/down events for key presses
> (I actually did code up such a change at some point in the past, to
> play with it: it might be doable without introducing too many problems).
Like in GTK+ `Ctrl+Shift+U hex RET' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_input
we could finish entering the number with RET, e.g. `M-2 M-7 M-0 M-f RET'.
Or expect a fixed-length four-digit number `M-2 M-7 M-0 M-f' where the last
fourth digit finishes the sequence. In any case, your up/down events code
would be useful for other purposes as well.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
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