imput methods (was Re: query-replace?)

[B. T. Raven]

"Peter Dyballa" <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> wrote in message
news:mailman.315.1136721918.26925.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org...

Am 07.01.2006 um 19:04 schrieb B. T. Raven:

> i.
> I have a character \234 in a file that should be displayed as an oe
> ligature. I have tried M-% C-q (0)234 but this doesn't work for
> getting it
> into the patter to be replaced. How do I refer to this character?

With default read-quoted-char-radix being 8 it's C-q 2 3 4 <RET>. HEX
input would be C-q 9 C RET>, and decimal C-q 1 5 6 <RET>. I don't
remember that this failed in any case ...

A different approach would be to bind some function key to enter œ.

>
> ii. Is it possible to include newlines in regexps? I have a five line
> header on each page that begins with same characters on 1st line
> and ends
> with same on last line. What is the most automated method of
> deleting just
> these lines?

C-q C-j.


Thanks, Peter and Lennart. For me it's easier to use leim since I use
latin-4-postfix most of the time anyway. With this the oe ligature is O&
or o&, which seems mnemonic since the first component of ampersand is a
Greek e (e-t). This brings up another question: When I type C-h I
(describe input method) and then "latin-3-postfix" all I see are the empty
rectangles again. This happen while looking at them with the .ttf font
arialuni, which certainly has the glyphs for Turkish characters. ???

Ed