Re: Binding key to insert an non-spacing acute accent

[Leo Butler]

On Mon, Jan 22 2024, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:

> On Monday, 22 Jan 2024 at 04:59, Michael Heerdegen via Users list for the GNU 
> Emacs text editor wrote:
>>   (define-key key-translation-map [(meta ?')] [#o1401])
>
> Excellent.  Thank you.
>
> Because, when using the character directly, I got ?́, I thought it would
> insert the question mark as well (obviously should have actually tried
> it).  Using unicode makes it less confusing as the accent on the
> question mark is difficult to see, at least with the typeface I'm using.

You can use the TeX input method to do what you want.

C-\ TeX RET   => change input method to use TeX-like syntax

Example, the key sequence \'a  produces á.

HTH, Leo.