RE: [h-e-w] insert sterling character

[Dr Francis J. Wright]

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> rg] On Behalf Of Christopher G D Tipper
> Sent: Thursday, 1 July 2004 12:57 pm
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> Subject: [h-e-w] insert sterling character
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a US keyboard, but I'd like to remap Ctrl-Shift-$ to 
> produce a sterling symbol. I have searched info, but can't 
> seem to find a function to insert a literal character at the 
> point. Can anyone tell me what function ???? must be to get 
> this simple mapping right?
> 
> (global-set-key [?\C-$] (lambda () (??? '£))
> 
> (Please excuse any syntactical errors, I haven't read the 
> elisp manual...)
> 
> Christopher

Any of the following should insert a pound sterling character (i.e. they
work for me):

(insert ?£)

(insert 2211)

(insert ?\x8a3)

The latter two have the advantage of not needing a pound sterling key!

To write an interactive command (rather than just a Lisp function), you will
need something like this:

(global-set-key [?\C-$] (lambda () (interactive "*") (insert 2211)))

Again, this works for me.  But beware that I have a UK setup, so I might
have suggested something non-portable without realising it.

Francis