Re: The euro symbol in emacs

[Ralf Fassel]

* Guido Van Hoecke <guivho@gmail.com>
| > The prompt area is read-only, normally.  My crystal ball tells me that
| > you really mean "in the minibuffer", i.e., during input.
| >
| > For that, try adding that binding to one or all of the minibuffer
| > keymaps.  It is probably enough to add it to only `minibuffer-local-map':
| >
| > (define-key minibuffer-local-map (kbd "s-2")
| >                                  (lambda () (interactive) (insert ?€)))
| >
>
| This sounds like the way to go, but it doen't seem to work. Tried the
| minibuffer-local-map as well as all other minibuffer-*-map maps that
| are listed when completing F1 v minibuffer-

You also mentioned searching, so have a look at 'isearch-mode-map'.

    isearch-forward is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `isearch.el'.
  --<snip-snip>--
    As you type characters, they add to the search string and are found.
    The following non-printing keys are bound in `isearch-mode-map'.

HTH
R'