* Alt+numpad to write special symbols @ 2009-09-29 0:49 David Capello 2009-09-29 0:57 ` Juanma Barranquero 0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* 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> 0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
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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 0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread 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. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* 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 0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: Fwd: Alt+numpad to write special symbols 2009-09-29 3:13 ` Stefan Monnier @ 2009-09-29 23:12 ` Juri Linkov 0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread 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/ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
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