Re: The euro symbol in emacs

[Guido Van Hoecke]

Hi Drew

On 4 December 2014 at 21:53, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:

> > (global-set-key (kbd "s-2") (lambda () (interactive)  (insert  ?€)))
> >
> > That works fine for text buffers, but it does not work in the prompt
> > area.
>
> The prompt area is read-only, normally.  My crystal ball tells me that
> you really mean "in the minibuffer", i.e., during input.
>
> For that, try adding that binding to one or all of the minibuffer
> keymaps.  It is probably enough to add it to only `minibuffer-local-map':
>
> (define-key minibuffer-local-map (kbd "s-2")
>                                  (lambda () (interactive) (insert ?€)))
>

This sounds like the way to go, but it doen't seem to work. Tried the
minibuffer-local-map as well as all other minibuffer-*-map maps that are
listed when completing F1 v minibuffer-

Well, I'll stick with C-X 8 RET 20AC for now...

Guido