Subject: bug#55668: closed (Re: bug#55668: Extending the `C-x 8' map to include macrons)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Fri, 27 May 2022 15:43:01 +0000

Your bug report

#55668: Extending the `C-x 8' map to include macrons

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#55668: Extending the `C-x 8' map to include macrons
From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
To: Tor Kringeland <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 27 May 2022 18:42:36 +0300
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

> From: Tor Kringeland <[email-masked]>
> CC: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>,
> 	"[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
> Date: Fri, 27 May 2022 13:40:49 +0000
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > Does the below fit the bill?
> 
> It does --- thanks!

Thanks, installed.

Subject: Extending the `C-x 8' map to include macrons
From: Tor Kringeland <[email-masked]>
To: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 27 May 2022 01:03:10 +0000
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Currently `C-x 8 -' produces `' (soft hyphen).  Finding uses of words
in English texts with letters with macrons are not uncommon.  For
example, it is the preferred way to write Māori names (and other words)
and Japanese names (e.g., Dōgen), since macrons denote a longer sound
which is often lost when reading these words the "default" way in
English.

I suggest chaning the `C-x 8' to add macrons to letters after `C-x 8 -'
and move the current `C-x 8 -' to `C-x 8 - -'.  Something similar was
done a while ago with `C-x 8 .' being moved to `C-x 8 . .' to allow for
new character compositions.

(It could be said that `C-x 8 _' be used, but it already has an entry
for `C-x 8 _ o' and it's not `ō'.)