Re: [h-e-w] Quotation marks and other special characters

[Carl Winbäck]

Nevermind! The issue that it didn’t work was that I had forgotten to
remove the ”and then” line (^_^)

Thank you again guys, this advice was really useful for me.

On 20 June 2017 at 09:07, Carl Winbäck <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Ed,
>
> This looks really interesting. However, I wonder if perhaps the code’s
> formatting got mangled?
>
> What made me doubtfoul was the ”insert” stanza. On my client it’s
> displayed as (insert ?”) – the argument to the insert function is a
> question mark followed by the special character, e.g. Right Double
> Quotation Mark. (See also the screenshot in the attached file.)
>
> Is that correct?
>
>
> Best regards,
> Carl
>
>
> On 18 June 2017 at 07:24, T400 <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I don't know if curly quotes are part of any Emacs input method but if not,
>> and depending on the layout of your keyboard you could have something like
>> this in your .emacs:
>>
>>
>> (setq w32-pass-lwindow-to-system nil
>>       w32-pass-rwindow-to-system nil
>>       w32-pass-apps-to-system    nil
>>       w32-lwindow-modifier       'super   ;; Left Windows
>>       w32-rwindow-modifier       'super   ;; Right Windows
>>       w32-apps-modifier          'hyper)  ;; App-Menu (key to right of Right
>> Windows)
>>
>>
>> and then
>>
>> (global-set-key [(super \,)] (lambda () (interactive) (insert  ?« )))
>> (global-set-key [(super \.)] (lambda () (interactive) (insert  ?» )))
>> (global-set-key [(super \')] (lambda () (interactive) (insert  ?“ )))
>> (global-set-key [(super  \")] (lambda () (interactive) (insert  ?” )))
>>
>> Ed
>>
>>
>>
>> On 6/14/2017 07:46, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>>>
>>>> From: Carl Winbäck <address@hidden>
>>>> Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 13:13:51 +0200
>>>>
>>>> I’m not able to use ”alt codes” to insert special characters when using
>>>> Emacs 25.1.1 on Windows 10 Pro
>>>> 64-bit.
>>>>
>>>> E.g. if I press Alt+0147 in order to insert an opening double quote (”),
>>>> Emacs just displays C-u 147- in the
>>>> mode line. This keyboard shortcut works fine in other applications such
>>>> as Notepad.
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas how to solve this?
>>>
>>> I don't think this has ever worked in Emacs.  You can use the other
>>> methods for inserting characters by their codepoints, as pointed out
>>> by Rob.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>