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Re: [AUCTeX] Special characters in LaTeX and some Emacs commandsdon't wo


From: gerald . jean
Subject: Re: [AUCTeX] Special characters in LaTeX and some Emacs commandsdon't work!
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 10:11:37 -0500

Hello there,

thanks to Ralf and Joost for there help,

Joost Kremers <address@hidden> a écrit sur 2008/12/19 06:26:20 :

> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:20:01PM +0100, Ralf Angeli wrote:
> > * gerald jean (2008-12-18) writes:
> >
> > > I am using AucTeX 11.85 from Emacs 22.2.1 under Windows XP.
> >
> > > But after a while, for reasons unknown to me, none of this works
anymore,
> > > "end-of-buffer" will echo in the mini-buffer: M-À is undefined,
> none of the
> > > special characters -- and one uses a lot of them when typesetting
LaTeX
> > > documents -- work anymore.
> >
> > `M->' or `M-<', I don't remember which one, switches the keyboard
layout
> > in Windows.  (This is a functionality of Windows, not one of Emacs.)
> > Perhaps this is what's happening.  In the task bar there might be a
> > small indicator showing something like "EN" or "FR" which could help
you
> > figure out which layout is active at a given moment.
> >
> > > The only cure I found so far is to kill
> > > Emacs and restart it.
> >
> > that would contradict the theory of keyboard layout switching.
>
> Actually, it would not! In Windows, keyboard layout settings are (or at
> least can be) specific to a program. So you may have an English setting
for
> one program and a French setting for another. There is a default setting,
> which is used for new programs, so that killing and restarting Emacs
would
> indeed restore the original setting.
>
> To the OP: you should certainly check out the Windows keyboard layout
> settings. The key combo that switches settings can be set by the user.
> There are a bunch of possible options here, such as shift-alt (which IIUC
> is the default one) or shift-ctrl, which are needed in Emacs to access
> certain shortcuts, e.g., M-% or M-$. Using any of those functions will
> switch the layout.
Actually on my machine shift-alt seems to switch the keyboard settings. No
wonder it happened so often, every time one wants to go to the end of a
buffer he needs to use that combo with the ">" key, if the timing of
pressing the three keys is not as it should then the keyboard get switched!

I have administrative rights on my machine but when I go to <start> --->
<parameters settings> ---> <configuration board> ---> <keyboard> (note that
I am translating these from French -- hence it may not be the exact words
in English), all I can do here is to alter "repetition speed", update the
driver and a few other little things NOT related to the keyboard settings,
am I looking at the right place?
>
> The keyboard layout settings should also have the option to put an icon
in
> the task bar, like Ralf said, so you can see which setting is active.
>
> You may also disable all keyboard layouts except the French one, in which
> case switching would not be possible.
>
> HTH
>
> --
> Joost Kremers, PhD
> University of Frankfurt
> Institute for Cognitive Linguistics
> Grüneburgplatz 1
> 60629 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Thanks again for your help, even if, for the moment, I can't change the key
combination controlling the switching I can easily get it back to its
original state without killing Emacs, which is a BIG improvment, this
killing and starting over again was killing me!!!!!

Gérald Jean
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