From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Randomcoder Subject: Re: How to represent Emacs keystrokes in Org? Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 11:17:12 +0200 Message-ID: <20150320091712.GA7494@xw> References: <87vbm4fvce.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl> <87tx1o8mwj.fsf@gmx.us> <87bnnpisgq.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl> <87a939is9j.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl> <87sid01wwh.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56831) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YYt3V-0001HD-Lk for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Mar 2015 05:17:26 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YYt3R-0001Fp-IA for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Mar 2015 05:17:25 -0400 Received: from mail-wg0-x235.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c00::235]:35496) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YYt3R-0001Fd-BU for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Mar 2015 05:17:21 -0400 Received: by wgdm6 with SMTP id m6so84060558wgd.2 for ; Fri, 20 Mar 2015 02:17:20 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87sid01wwh.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Marcin Borkowski Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Hi Marcin, I'm going to reference a hangout of Sacha Chua and Xah Lee where they talked about this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKPKWqvTImA ( you can download it with livestreamer like so livestreamer -o xlsc.mp4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKPKWqvTImA 360p ) At 26:53 Xah Lee starts explaining about how his setup related to rendering keystrokes in emacs. At 27:13 he mentions this function => xhm-htmlize-keyboard-shortcut-notation Apparently this is used to render the keystrokes. On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 10:48:30PM +0100, Marcin Borkowski wrote: > Hi there, > > it seems that reviving old threads is my new hobby;-). > > On 2014-11-29, at 22:58, Marcin Borkowski wrote: > > > On 2014-11-29, at 22:53, Marcin Borkowski wrote: > > > >> On 2014-11-24, at 19:38, Rasmus wrote: > >> > >>> Marcin Borkowski writes: > >>> > >>>> Hello, > >>>> > >>>> I'm writing (in Org) a text on Emacs usage. How to > >>>> correctly/canonically represent keystrokes, like "C-x RET f"? > >>>> Currently, I use =C-x RET f=; are there any alternatives? > >>> > >>> That's what I'd do. Or ~C-x RET f~. You could also use a macro, if you > >>> want it to me be more semantic (I hope I use this word correctly). > > This might seem a good idea, but how do I do it? (See below for > a concrete problem statement.) > > >> Houston, we've got a problem. What about =M-,=? Somehow it seems not > >> to be interpreted in the right way: it does not get fontified correctly, > >> nor does export in the right way. What can I do about it? I found > >> about org-emphasis-regexp-components, is it the only way? Also, how do > >> I reload Org without restarting Emacs? (I am an Emacs geek and I try to > >> beat my record of emacs-uptime, you know. ;-) ) > > > > Wow, I got an idea, and it worked. Here's an excerpt from `C-u C-x =' > > at my solution;-): > > > > position: 11859 of 16051 (74%), column: 253 > > character: ‍ (displayed as ‍) (codepoint 8205, #o20015, #x200d) > > preferred charset: unicode (Unicode (ISO10646)) > > code point in charset: 0x200D > > syntax: . which means: punctuation > > to input: type "C-x 8 RET HEX-CODEPOINT" or "C-x 8 RET NAME" > > buffer code: #xE2 #x80 #x8D > > file code: #xE2 #x80 #x8D (encoded by coding system utf-8-unix) > > display: by this font (glyph code) > > xft:-unknown-Phetsarath OT-normal-normal-normal-*-17-*-*-*-*-0-iso10646-1 (#x120) > > > > Character code properties: customize what to show > > name: ZERO WIDTH JOINER > > > > A bit ugly trick, but works. What are the opinions? > > After a while I have to say that my opinion is strongly negative: this > breaks LaTeX export. (LaTeX doesn’t like some unicode characters, it > turns out.) Also, this was really an ugly hack... > > So, here is my problem: how to represent a key like M-, or > e.g. a sequence \, (important in regexps) as “code” or “verbatim stuff” > in org-mode? Neither =\,= nor ~\,~ work, of course. Also, I’d like > this to be backend-agnostic, so \texttt{M-,} doesn’t really work. > > What is the rationale behind forbidding the comma as the “border” > character in org-emphasis-regexp-components? Should I change this > variable in my setup or is there a more general way to convince Org that > I really want verbatim/code snippets like =\,=? > > Best, > > -- > Marcin Borkowski > http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski > Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science > Adam Mickiewicz University >