Re: question: remapping accented character

Yes, this works!  Thanks.

                                                                Marc

Le 8 août 07 à 12:39, xah lee a écrit :

> this might help:
>
> (global-set-key (kbd "é") ' (lambda () (interactive) (insert "=(^_^) 
> =")))
>
>   Xah
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>
> On Aug 8, 2007, at 3:28 AM, Marc Shapiro -- at work wrote:
>
> Thanks.  I hadn't thought of your suggestions, but they don't do  
> what I need.  I will be typing ordinary French words or names  
> (which contain diacriticals very frequently), so I want to use  
> ordinary keyboard strokes.
>
> For instance, I would like type "Léa" and get "L{{\'e}}a" in the  
> buffer, or type "François" and get "Fran{{\,c}}ois" in the  
> buffer.   A word might even contain several diacriticals, e.g.  
> typing "déjà" should insert "d{{\'e}}j{{\`a}}".
>
> The abbrev feature doesn't work because I would have to create  
> abbreviations for every possible word.  The shortcut is not helpful  
> either because it causes too much extraneous typing.
>
>                                                         Marc
>
> Le 8 août 07 à 12:12, xah lee a écrit :
>
> > you can use abrrev feature:
> >
> > (define-abbrev-table 'global-abbrev-table '(
> >     ("alpha" "α" nil 0)
> >     ("beta" "β" nil 0)
> >     ("gamma" "γ" nil 0)
> >     ("theta" "θ" nil 0)
> >     ("Infinity" "∞" nil 0)
> >     ("eop" "∎" nil 0)
> >     ("luv" "♥" nil 0)
> >     ("é" "{{\\\\'e}}" nil 0)
> > )
> > )
> >
> > or you can define a shortcut to insert whatever:
> >
> > (global-set-key (kbd "M-i a") (lambda () (interactive) (insert  
> > "α")))
> > (global-set-key (kbd "M-i b") (lambda () (interactive) (insert  
> > "β")))
> > (global-set-key (kbd "M-i t") (lambda () (interactive) (insert  
> > "θ")))
> >
> >   Xah
> >   xah@xxxxxxxxxx
> > ∑ http://xahlee.org/
> > -----------------
> >
> > On Aug 8, 2007, at 2:32 AM, Marc Shapiro -- at work wrote:
> >
> > Hi.  This is probably the wrong place for this question, but I  
> > really can't figure out where to find this information.
> >
> > How can I remap accented characters?  Specifically, in bibtex mode  
> > (because bibtex does not deal correctly with Latin-1), when I type  
> > "é" (e-acute-accent) I wish the string "{{\\'e}}" to appear in the  
> > buffer. Similarly for other diacritical characters.
> >
> > Everything I tried so far has failed.  Thanks for any help.
> >
> >                                                                 Marc
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