Re: Composing Hebrew diacriticals

[Yair F]

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 5:35 AM, Miles Bader <address@hidden> wrote:
> Yair F <address@hidden> writes:
>> Consider this example: d̊̂ (d+ring above+circumflex) The user would
>> like to remove the ring component. How can it be done?
>
> _Editing_ commands (e.g., DEL) work on the individual components, even
> for composed characters -- so if you put d̊̂ in a buffer, position the
> cursor after it, and hit DEL, it will remove just the last accent,
> leaving "d̊".  This duality works pretty well I think, and seems
> intuitive.
>
I still fail to understand how to directly access end edit individual componens.
In the example above how can the ring component can be directly edited
without editing the circumflex?

A base character composed with 3 marks is not that infrequent.