GNU bug report logs - #43866
26.3; italian postfix additions

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Francesco Potortì <pot <at> gnu.org>

Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2020 12:07:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: moreinfo

Found in version 26.3

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #107 received at 43866 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: rpluim <at> gmail.com, 43866 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#43866: 26.3; italian postfix additions
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2020 05:31:29 +0300

> From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,  43866 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 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".
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