FW: Emacs non-ascii characters

[Drew Adams]

This makes me wonder if `C-\' isn't a bad binding for such a command. Should
toggling the input method be on a key binding that is easy to hit by
mistake?

I don't use that command, so I don't know if it needs to be on a quickly hit
key. If not, should we perhaps move it to a binding with a prefix (e.g.
C-x)?

 - Drew

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Subject: Re: Emacs non-ascii characters


Pascal Bourguignon <address@hidden> writes:

> John Russell <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I just compiled emacs from CVS a few weeks ago.  When I enter a
double-quote
>> and then some characters ( usually vowels ) the two characters get
replaced
>> with some other character, like a 'u' with an umlaut or some other accent
>> mark.
>>
>> I have been searching around for it but I don't even know what this
"feature"
>> is called.  I looked in the emacs news ( C-h n ) and found something
about
>> quail which I'm not sure is related.
>>
>> Anyway, how do I turn this off? I want to be able to type strings in code
>> again without accents.  Thanks.
>
> This is a prefix input method.
>
> You can try: C-\
> to toggle-input-method.
>
> Or C-x set-input-method RET
> to select another input method.
>
> Perhaps set the default input method?
> C-h v default-input-method RET
>

Excellent.  Thank you very much.  I must have been fat-fingering
C-\ from time to time and turning that on inadvertantly.  Thanks again. John