From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rud1ger Sch1erz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Input of ISO-8859-1 chars Was: No x-faces with emacs 22.0 on XPpro Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 15:09:34 +0100 Organization: Joe Cool's Data Club Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1166193795 8232 80.91.229.10 (15 Dec 2006 14:43:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 14:43:15 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 15 15:43:12 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GvEHD-00034Z-Ef for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 15:43:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GvEHD-00012v-1R for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 09:43:07 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.cw.net!cw.net!news-FFM2.ecrc.de!feed.news.schlund.de!schlund.de!news.online.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: p549f866c.dip0.t-ipconnect.de Original-X-Trace: online.de 1166191774 13526 84.159.134.108 (15 Dec 2006 14:09:34 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@einsundeins.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 14:09:34 +0000 (UTC) X-Face: #:MZuxU}Ohx7F'%qn?&lOEKYDJTZ\~L/#bC%-j; .c^iCowB~~T?W%d~Py4iU[<; qpUg>d.Z``l6TeSrY`nfbo'ug:@Al0 E>Hrat[ZBeHmvbkUoX:eY+;d/_PtbnMNCEMI_FC~*D-:}*Z:FGO$E User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.91 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:FsGMjc5dJBCirHU/YgoRxJoVpJ0= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:143961 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:39569 Archived-At: "Juanma Barranquero" writes: > On 12/15/06, Rud1ger Sch1erz wrote: [...] >> With iso-accents-mode enabled, I could just type `"a' and it was >> substituted with `ä' on the fly. That was very convenient, using a >> keyboard with English layout to input German characters. > > Try adding > > (set-input-method 'latin-postfix) > > to you .emacs. You can try also with 'german-alt-postfix, > 'german-postfix, etc. "M-x list-input-methods lists" them all. C-\ > toggles the current input method on and off. Hey, thank you very much! (set-input-method 'latin-prefix) is exactly what I'm looking for. Cheers, Rudiger