[h-e-w] Re: New to Emacs (and to this list)

[Mathias Dahl]

Alessandro Vesely <address@hidden> writes:

> 2) What about entering keys with e.g. Alt-1-2-3 for '{',
> which is missing from nationalized keyboards (grr...)?

You could do it the Enacs way:

Whenever you want to type one of those characters that your keyboard
does not support, lookup the octal (important!) value for it and enter
it like this:

C-q 1 2 3 return

That is, press and hold Ctrl, type q. Release Ctrl. Type 1 2 3 and
lastly press return. The { character will be inserted.