Re: .emacs poser

["B. T. Raven" <btraven@nihilo.net>]

Emacsers:

Thanks for all the answers. After returning from a 10 day trip I thought
I might get a couple of responses but there were enough that two or
three of them solved the problem. There was an extra glyph (combining
macron or modifier letter macron) hidden in the question mark (character
declaration). I use this method just to experiment with utf-8 and
usually insert most exotic characters with input methods (usually
latin-postfix). I know about ucs-insert but don't want to have to look
up the hexcodes. Apparently once I used C-c M for combining macron and
then for Maltese cross. Usually I do C-x C-e just on the changed line to
test but I must have had this bug for a long time and then just
commented it out many months ago instead of digging into the problem.

Thanks again.

Ed

> Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>>> 0 + a = å : + a = ä : + o = ö
>>
>> If set your input method to
>>
>>     latin-1-prefix
>>
>> you can use /a, :a, :o to input the above characters.
>>
>> Why is it that you want roll your own?
> 
> In the post, I describe how it differs:
> 
> 1. [compose] har = h [compose] ar = här
> 
> 2. The prefix/compose char is not inserted: you only
>    see the letters that are part of the word. (Compare:
>    you could setup an abbrev to make "nasa" into
>    NASA. But I don't want NASA to look like "nasa",
>    ever.)
>    
> 3. No visual noise in the echo area.
> 
> Also, though a minor matter, I can set it up on a
> mode-by-mode basis without having to use the poor man's
> hooks.
> 
>> Btw, I see a swedish-postfix input method.  What you
>> want is swedish-prefix input method.
> 
> That was my first attempt:
> 
> (quail-define-package "swedish-quail" "Swedish" "Swedish quail")
> (quail-define-rules
>  ("0A" ?Å) ("0a" ?å)
>  (":A" ?Ä) (":a" ?ä)
>  (":O" ?Ö) (":o" ?ö) )
> (set-input-method 'swedish-quail)
> 
> However (again as I said even back then) I don't like
> the insertion of the prefix before it transforms, and I
> don't like the visual noise in the echo area.
> 
>> Seems like a good candidate for M-x report-emacs-bug.
> 
> Or a good candidate for writing that *gorgeous*
> Elisp. Red hair, green eyes, soft skin...
> 
>> If you propose a patch, then you can get the prefixes
>> that you yourself use.
> 
> I think this as a patch would have had a hard time as
> most people probably want the semi-colon for natural
> languages.
>