Re: Inserting special characters

["Jeffrey L. Taylor" <jeff@austinblues.dyndns.org>]

Quoting Robert Storey <y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net>:
> > My head's beginning to spin ;-|. "He" has the problem of the e-grave
> > that does not appear at the point but stays in the minibuffer. I'm not
> > clear if _you_ experience the same problem, or merely passing on what
> > "he" says. In any case, I have the same problem as "he" does. That is,
> > if I _type_ C-x 8 ` e, the e-grave shows up in the minibuffer followed
> > by a dash signifying need for more input), but not at the point. I run
> > emacs 21.1-1 as well, but under RH [sorry]. That is, when I type the
> > letter, the sequence is not recognized as being complete.
> 
> I have Emacs 21.2.2 installed, and C-x 8 ` e works just fine, ditto for
> other accent marks, as you can see:
> 
>  è é ë ê
> 
> What does NOT work at all is Xemacs. Maybe that's no big loss, but I'm
> curious, is there any way to type accented characters in Xemacs?
> 

You need to load the iso-insert package.  Do a locate iso-insert.el
and then add

(load-file "/usr/share/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/text-modes/iso-insert.elc")

with the correct path to .xemacs/init.el (this is on a SuSE system, I
don't have Xemacs installed on Debian).

HTH,
  Jeffrey