Re: greek writing language and keybindings

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On Wed, 3 Nov 2010 22:35:15 +0000 (UTC), Ilya Zakharevich 
<nospam-abuse@ilyaz.org> wrote:
> On 2010-11-03, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
>> On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 05:59:32 +0300 (EEST), Dimitrios Apostolou 
>> <jimis@gmx.net> wrote:
>>>> Next, in order to be able to type in Greek characters, you need to set
>>>> the input method.  Do this for the current buffer by clicking on
>>>> "Options", "MULE", and "Select Input Method".  In the minibuffer type
>>>> "gr", then hit Tab (C-i) and you'll see several Greek input methods.
>>>> You'll have to play around with these to find the one(s) you prefer.
>>>
>>> Thanks for the suggestion, I tried that and indeed emacs keybindings
>>> work fine like that. But that requires switching languages within emacs
>>> with C-\, overriding the setxkbmap command. Is there a better way?
>>
>> Unfortunately no.  The current XKB input method changes what Emacs sees
>> as a keypress when you switch languages through XKB.  So you have to
>> stick to C-\ and `M-x set-input-method' or keep switching back to XKB
>> English before you use an Emacs command.
>
> So what?  When a key-map gets an unknown key, cannot it call a
> user-defined function to translate stuff using a special
> translation-map?  Essentially, this would mean installing a special
> translation-map for duration of key-sequences...

Maybe.  This sounds like a useful idea...

I feel rather satisfied with the internal Emacs C-\ input selection, and
I've even patched Emacs 23.X to support Greek style «quotes», so there
is little incentive for me to patch that.

I'll gladly review any patches you write for this sort of thing :-)