Re: Special character Emacs

[Andreas Wittmann]

On 8 Jun., 22:18, Nikolaj Schumacher <n_schumac...@web.de> wrote:
> Andreas Wittmann <andreas_wittm...@gmx.de> wrote:
> > it says "<dead-circumflex is undefined>" how can i define it?
>
> As I guessed earlier, your ^ is a dead key.  (Next time, please post any
> error messages right away.)
>
> Most likely you didn't want it to be a dead key in the first place.  You
> can fix that by selecting the eliminate-dead-keys keyboard layout
> variant in Ubuntu.
>
> However, in my clean install of Ubuntu, Emacs 22 handles dead keys just
> fine.  (That is, it ignores dead-circumflex.)  Please verify that the
> error occurs with emacs -Q, and please answer my earlier question on
> whether you run emacs from the terminal.
>
> regards,
> Nikolaj Schumacher

Hi Nikolaj,

i run emacs with "emacs-snapshot-gtk" from the terminal. Starting with
"emacs-snapshot-gtk -Q" has as far as i can see no effect.
where is the eliminate-dead-keys keyboard?

best regards

Andreas