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Re: greek writing language and keybindings


From: Ilya Zakharevich
Subject: Re: greek writing language and keybindings
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:34:25 -0000
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On 2010-11-03, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 05:59:32 +0300 (EEST), Dimitrios Apostolou 
> <jimis@gmx.net> wrote:
>>> Next, in order to be able to type in Greek characters, you need to set
>>> the input method.  Do this for the current buffer by clicking on
>>> "Options", "MULE", and "Select Input Method".  In the minibuffer type
>>> "gr", then hit Tab (C-i) and you'll see several Greek input methods.
>>> You'll have to play around with these to find the one(s) you prefer.
>>
>> Thanks for the suggestion, I tried that and indeed emacs keybindings
>> work fine like that. But that requires switching languages within emacs
>> with C-\, overriding the setxkbmap command. Is there a better way?
>
> Unfortunately no.  The current XKB input method changes what Emacs sees
> as a keypress when you switch languages through XKB.  So you have to
> stick to C-\ and `M-x set-input-method' or keep switching back to XKB
> English before you use an Emacs command.

So what?  When a key-map gets an unknown key, cannot it call a
user-defined function to translate stuff using a special
translation-map?  Essentially, this would mean installing a special
translation-map for duration of key-sequences...

Ilya


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