From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joost Kremers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs22: set the input method to latin-1-prefix Date: 1 Oct 2007 19:23:59 GMT Message-ID: References: <1191246677.349612.175260@22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1191267684 26135 80.91.229.12 (1 Oct 2007 19:41:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 19:41:24 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 01 21:41:21 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IcR8m-0008Sl-Va for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Oct 2007 21:41:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IcR8i-0005Us-Rl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Oct 2007 15:41:12 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Trace: individual.net 2WFAErNNKEWcoT0dCkIf+g7NwQ8L9jGVJll9p02kidR7JiOaqA Cancel-Lock: sha1:j81JI6/mTI+7PfsOpo0y3+EjDmk= Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Editor: Emacs of course! User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (Linux) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:152518 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:48026 Archived-At: Ulrich Scholz wrote: > C-\ sets the input method to latin-1-prefix. Now I want the initial > input method (right after starting Emacs) to be latin-1-prefix. Can > I do that by customization? i could be wrong, but from what i understand about input methods, no, it's not possible. when emacs starts, no input method is selected. since an input method is always buffer-local, setting it in e.g. .emacs only sets if for whatever buffer .emacs is executed in (if it's executed in a buffer at all, i don't know.) one way to more or less get what you want is to add a function setting your desired input method to the various major mode hooks that you use. the only alternative i see is to file a feature request... -- Joost Kremers joostkremers@yahoo.com Selbst in die Unterwelt dringt durch Spalten Licht EN:SiS(9)