[Ma-linux] [Dclug] Simple Emacs Question

[Alan McConnell]

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 09:50:27AM -0400, Ted Smith wrote:
>
> Do you mean in text mode? I'm not much of an emacs wizard, so I don't
> know how to do it globally, but to add that to text mode, you would add
> it as a hook in .emacs, like this:
> 
> (add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'iso-accents-mode)
	Thanks.  That works in text mode.  But I want it everywhere.
	At the moment my workaround is: when my emacs opens in Fundamental
	mode, which it almost always does, I can go 
	      M-x text-mode
	and then I get what I want, e.g. ä, ñ, ç, etc( but text mode
	has its own difficulties, at least for me<g> -- I just got
	out of it)
	So I still need an entry for my .emacs file which gives me
	this capability for Fundamental mode.

>> 2.  I find from google that  iso-accents-mode  is going, or
>> maybe gone, from emacs v 22.  Fortunately my emacs, in etch, is
>> v 21. 	
> I'm not too sure about this either, but those are all unicode
> characters, right? 
	I don't know!  I sort of doubt it, because there are other
	iso-s besides Latin enhancements.  We are talking here about
	the characters 128-256, no?  But maybe there is some way of
	taking stuff from higher in Unicode and mapping them down
	to that range.

John Anderson has made the suggestion that  iso-accents-mode is
deprecated and I should use   latin-1-prefix   instead.  Well,
my emacs, v 21 doesn't have  latin-1-prefix !

I have discovered that iso-accents-mode is implemented, on my
Debian etch, by iso-acc.elc, in  /usr/share/emacs/21.4/lisp/international/.
So I thought: maybe I can find somewhere the .elc file that
implements latin-1-prefix and drop it into
	/usr/share/emacs/21.4/lisp/international
But my search, through google, has proved unsuccessful.

So my query is still open.  <sigh>  I thought this question was so
easy!

Alan

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