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Re: Emacs keybinding of Ctrl-[



Havoc Pennington wrote:

> On 2 Oct 1998, Andy Spiegl wrote:
> > I am working with an US-keyboard, but typing German texts in XEmacs.
> > So I tried to teach XEmacs (v19.11) to give me the umlauts if I press
> > the corresponding keys together with CTRL.  This works fine for all
> > keys except for u-umlaut which would end up being on CTRL-[ :
> 
> C-[ is the same as ESC, I think. 

Exactly right.

> Do you have an alt or meta or compose key you could use?

That's what I do for french.

(require 'iso-transl)
(iso-transl-set-language "French")
(standard-display-european t)

Then, for me, Alt-e enters é.
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