From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10958 invoked from network); 18 Aug 2005 20:00:03 -0000 Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 18 Aug 2005 20:00:03 -0000 Received: (qmail 43383 invoked from network); 18 Aug 2005 19:59:58 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 18 Aug 2005 19:59:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 9972 invoked by alias); 18 Aug 2005 19:59:55 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 21667 Received: (qmail 9962 invoked from network); 18 Aug 2005 19:59:54 -0000 Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by sunsite.dk with SMTP; 18 Aug 2005 19:59:54 -0000 Received: (qmail 43035 invoked from network); 18 Aug 2005 19:59:54 -0000 Received: from cmailm4.svr.pol.co.uk (195.92.193.211) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 18 Aug 2005 19:59:47 -0000 Received: from modem-182.putangitangi.dialup.pol.co.uk ([81.78.192.182] helo=pwstephenson.fsnet.co.uk) by cmailm4.svr.pol.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.41) id 1E5qYE-0001Km-AQ for zsh-workers@sunsite.dk; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 20:59:46 +0100 Received: by pwstephenson.fsnet.co.uk (Postfix, from userid 501) id D1D918662; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 16:08:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pwstephenson.fsnet.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pwstephenson.fsnet.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99EB4864D for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 21:08:09 +0100 (BST) To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk (Zsh hackers list) Subject: Re: PATCH: insert-unicode-char In-reply-to: <14640.1124390900@trentino.groupinfra.com> References: <200508181543.j7IFhDjV003092@news01.csr.com> <14640.1124390900@trentino.groupinfra.com> Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 21:08:08 +0100 From: Peter Stephenson Message-Id: <20050818200809.D1D918662@pwstephenson.fsnet.co.uk> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.4 Oliver Kiddle wrote: > > Index: Functions/Zle/insert-unicode-char > > Presumably this works perfectly well in non-unicode locales if the > resultant character is available. Yes, it should do. > Given that, is insert-unicode-char (as > opposed to something like compose-char) the best name? It's built around characters available in Unicode, and requires conversion from UCS-4, so it's not irrelevant... but it's true that users of ISO-8859-1 probably wouldn't realise they could use it for accented characters. (The manual entry hints but doesn't quite say.) > I'm sure you know this but for the benefit of anyone that doesn't, it's > possible to configure a compose key with xmodmap. It think the > applicable line (for the rightmost Windows key) is: > keycode 117 = Multi_key That's the right menu key on my keyboard; the Windows key is 116. I tend to think the less I have to do with xmodmap the better, but this time it does seem to be fairly painless. -- Peter Stephenson Work: pws@csr.com Web: http://www.pwstephenson.fsnet.co.uk