Re: 23.0.60; More ELisp progress please!

[Juri Linkov]

> I would like to see enabled something like this:
>
>       (defvar ctl-≈-map nil
>         "Default keymap for C-≈ commands.
>       My special input mode global definition of the character C-≈ 
> indirects to this keymap.")
>
> Purpose: to be able to save a buffer when the keyboard is in some non-
> Latin input mode and produces instead of x the character ≈ or й. So
> I would need to install a ctl-≈-map *and* a ctl-й-map which would  allow
> key bindings like
>
>       (define-key ctl-≈-map "\C-\∑" 'save-buffer)
>
> and
>
>       (define-key ctl-й-map "\C-\я" 'save-buffer)
>
> plus some more that my fingers can press what my eyes see and what they're
> used to press since decades (the basic little things) in case  I'm writing
> in another script and some other language.

There is a patch that implements your wish at the cost of introducing more
problems: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2005-11/msg01500.html

So a good solution is to always use Emacs input methods instead of OS input
methods.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/