Re: greek writing language and keybindings

[Dimitrios Apostolou]

Hi, thanks for your reply

I should note that I am already writing greek perfectly in emacs, and I am 
switching languages using the X server shortcut I have chosen for every X 
application with the following command, and I wouldn't like to change 
that:

setxkbmap us,el -option "grp:shifts_toggle"

The problem is that I have to switch back to english for the default 
keybindings to work, which is very irritating!

On Thu, 28 Oct 2010, ken wrote:
> Though I'm not the list's expert, I have dabbled in some languages with
> emacs.  From what I've found, there's two steps.  One is to set the
> buffer's language environment.  UTF-8 works for many different
> languages, Greek included.  Select UTF-8 for the current buffer by
> clicking on "Options", "MULE", and "Set Language Environment", then "URF-8".

I am using emacs 23 and there is a little "U" at the lower left corner of 
the emacs window, doesn't that mean that UTF-8 is selected by default?

> Next, in order to be able to type in Greek characters, you need to set
> the input method.  Do this for the current buffer by clicking on
> "Options", "MULE", and "Select Input Method".  In the minibuffer type
> "gr", then hit Tab (C-i) and you'll see several Greek input methods.
> You'll have to play around with these to find the one(s) you prefer.

Thanks for the suggestion, I tried that and indeed emacs keybindings work 
fine like that. But that requires switching languages within emacs with 
C-\, overriding the setxkbmap command. Is there a better way?


Thanks, Dimitris


P.S. On a sidenote, maybe this is related to my emacs being compiled with 
GTK+ disabled and Motif toolkit enabled? Can someone with a GTK+ enabled 
emacs test whether keybindings work, when a non-latin language is enabled?


> After you find what works for you, then of course you can put something
> in your ~/.emacs, but I don't know what that would be.
>
> hth,
> ken