On 2 Oct 1998, Andy Spiegl wrote: > Hi, > > I am working with an US-keyboard, but typing German texts in XEmacs. > So I tried to teach XEmacs (v19.11) to give me the umlauts if I press > the corresponding keys together with CTRL. This works fine for all > keys except for u-umlaut which would end up being on CTRL-[ : >
C-[ is the same as ESC, I think. So that's your problem. Maybe if you redefine ESC, but you probably don't want to do that. Do you have an alt or meta or compose key you could use? You could use Xmodmap to remap right alt or right control to Hyper or Compose or some other key not found on US keyboards. Then you could use that for your Emacs bindings. You'd have to work out the details but I bet you could make it work. Then your regular Emacs bindings will be unaffected, since you could use left alt and control for those. HTH, Havoc