Re: How to represent Emacs keystrokes in Org?

[Randomcoder <randomcoder1@gmail.com>]

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 <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl> wrote:
> 
> > On 2014-11-29, at 22:53, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
> >
> >> On 2014-11-24, at 19:38, Rasmus wrote:
> >>
> >>> Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl> 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
>