Subject: Re: bug#43866: 26.3; italian postfix additions

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2020 05:31:29 +0300

> From: Juri Linkov <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>,  [email-masked]
> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2020 23:07:13 +0300
> 
> I wonder why C-x 8 provides key sequences that are not mnemonic
> and so hard to remember?
> 
> Would it make sense to support exactly the same keys that are
> provided by the X11 compose method?  I mean that are in the file
> /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose
> also available at
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ComposeKey
> and
> https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libX11/plain/nls/en_US.UTF-8/Compose.pre

How about making a new input method for those?  It seems to me that
C-x 8 is already too "fat".