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From: Aleksandar Dimitrov <mail@aleks.bg>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: About multilingual documents
Date: Tue, 04 May 2021 20:55:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <875yzyuy4y.fsf@list.aleks.bg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <s6rv4s$mgh$1@ciao.gmane.io>

Maxim Nikulin writes:

> On 04/05/2021 14:30, Aleksandar Dimitrov wrote:
>> 
>> I don't usually switch input methods. Instead I rely on the X-Server's
>> facilities, including group toggles and XCompose. For example I use
>> XCompose to write all languages with a Latin alphabet without having to
>> switch layouts/input methods.
>
> You mentioned Cyrillic, and it is inconvenient to switch keyboard layout 
> (Xkb group) for any command (C-c ...). Unfortunately keymaps in emacs 
> are unaware of keysyms from "base" group when another group is active. 
> On the other hand, emacs input method requires special tricks to keep 
> emacs window (almost) always with latin keyboard layout while other 
> applications rely on xkb.

Yeah, I know the issue, which is why I rely on XCompose for Latin
scripts. For Cyrillic, alas, that is impossible. It means that I
basically can't control Emacs while using a Cyrillic layout, which is a
pity. I have no good workaround.


  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-04 18:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-02 20:20 About multilingual documents Juan Manuel Macías
2021-05-03  6:58 ` Aleksandar Dimitrov
2021-05-03 17:47   ` Greg Minshall
2021-05-04  7:30     ` Aleksandar Dimitrov
2021-05-04 17:09       ` Maxim Nikulin
2021-05-04 18:55         ` Aleksandar Dimitrov [this message]
2021-05-06 16:22           ` Maxim Nikulin
2021-05-04  8:19     ` Eric S Fraga
2021-05-04  8:29       ` Input methods [was: Re: About multilingual documents] Joost Kremers
2021-05-04  9:36         ` Eric S Fraga
2021-05-03 18:48   ` About multilingual documents Joost Kremers
2021-05-04  8:00     ` Aleksandar Dimitrov
2021-05-03 20:33   ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-05-04  1:00     ` Tom Gillespie
2021-05-04  8:13       ` Aleksandar Dimitrov
2021-05-04  8:44     ` Aleksandar Dimitrov
2021-05-06 11:11       ` Juan Manuel Macías
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2021-05-04 11:43 autofrettage

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