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Re: [emacs-bidi] Control-key binding while typing (for example) Hebrew
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: [emacs-bidi] Control-key binding while typing (for example) Hebrew |
Date: |
Sat, 26 Jun 2010 17:54:07 +0300 |
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
> cc: Amit Ramon <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> Cc: address@hidden
> From: Larry Denenberg <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 09:22:44 -0400
>
> I'm working on a Mac, so to switch to Hebrew I tell the *Macintosh* (not
> Emacs) to switch to Hebrew. The Mac has many built-in input methods
> including a couple for Hebrew. Doing this at the level of the Mac
> switches me to Hebrew throughout the system, not just for Emacs---I
> switch in the same way when I want to type a Hebrew word into the Google
> search box of my browser.
>
> This means that, in Emacs, I don't need an input method at all. The OS
> is already translating everything for me. Emacs gets Hebrew letters
> just as though I had a keyboard that directly generated them.
>
> However, I do have the following problem: Suppose I switch the Mac to
> Hebrew and type control-B in Emacs. The Mac quite properly translates
> this into control-bet, because bet is on the key marked "B" (I'm using a
> Hebrew-for-QWERTY-typers layout).
I disagree that this is "quite properly". When I do the same on
MS-Windows, keys modified by Ctrl, Shift, and Alt are not translated.
That is, Emacs still sees C-b, not some control-modified Hebrew
character.
Perhaps you could fix your problem on the Mac level.
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Control-key binding while typing (for example) Hebrew, (continued)
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Control-key binding while typing (for example) Hebrew, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/06/25
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Control-key binding while typing (for example) Hebrew, Amit Ramon, 2010/06/25
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Control-key binding while typing (for example) Hebrew, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/06/25
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Control-key binding while typing (for example) Hebrew, Amit Ramon, 2010/06/25
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Control-key binding while typing (for example) Hebrew, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/06/26
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Control-key binding while typing (for example) Hebrew, Larry Denenberg, 2010/06/26
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Control-key binding while typing (for example) Hebrew,
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- Re: [emacs-bidi] Control-key binding while typing (for example) Hebrew, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/06/26
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Control-key binding while typing (for example) Hebrew, Amit Ramon, 2010/06/27
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Control-key binding while typing (for example) Hebrew, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/06/27
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Control-key binding while typing (for example) Hebrew, Amit Ramon, 2010/06/28
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Control-key binding while typing (for example) Hebrew, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/06/28
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Control-key binding while typing (for example) Hebrew, Amit Aronovitch, 2010/06/28
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Control-key binding while typing (for example) Hebrew, Amit Ramon, 2010/06/26
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Control-key binding while typing (for example) Hebrew, Kenichi Handa, 2010/06/28
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Control-key binding while typing (for example) Hebrew, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/06/28
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Control-key binding while typing (for example) Hebrew, Michael Welsh Duggan, 2010/06/28