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Inputting characters with specialist diacritic marks in emacs
From: |
mikew2801 |
Subject: |
Inputting characters with specialist diacritic marks in emacs |
Date: |
Tue, 19 Jan 2016 05:30:00 -0800 (PST) |
User-agent: |
G2/1.0 |
Hello,
I am a linguist who works particularly with Indic languages. I am trying to do
most of my work in emacs, but I am having problems using characters with
diacritic marks (for instance ā, ī and so on) which are commonly used to
transliterate old Indic languages such as Sanskrit and Pali.
My makeshift solution is to use the "global-set-key" function to bind
individual characters to keys, e.g.,
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c y") (lambda () (interactive) (insert "ñ")))
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c t") (lambda () (interactive) (insert "ṭ")))
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c d") (lambda () (interactive) (insert "ḍ")))
This is not ideal since it's quite difficult to type these bindings. In Linux I
use Ibus mappings which involve double-tapping a similar key (e.g., when I type
"a-a" I get "ā", when I type "i-i" I get "ī" and so on.
The question is - is there a way to make similar key-bindings in Emacs? Sublime
facilitates this, but I'd rather stay in emacs and emacs 24 refuses to work
with Ibus (I've tried other help forums on Ibus/emacs to no avail).
Any ideas/comments would most appreciated! As you can tell I'm very new to
emacs.
Mike
- Inputting characters with specialist diacritic marks in emacs,
mikew2801 <=
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- RE: Inputting characters with specialist diacritic marks in emacs, Drew Adams, 2016/01/19
- Re: Inputting characters with specialist diacritic marks in emacs, patrick mc allister, 2016/01/19
- Re: Inputting characters with specialist diacritic marks in emacs, Teemu Likonen, 2016/01/19
- Re: Inputting characters with specialist diacritic marks in emacs, Stefan Monnier, 2016/01/19
- Re: Inputting characters with specialist diacritic marks in emacs, Emanuel Berg, 2016/01/19