Nevermind! The issue that it didn’t work was that I had forgotten to remove the ”and then” line (^_^)
Thank you again guys, this advice was really useful for me. On 20 June 2017 at 09:07, Carl Winbäck <c...@tunnel53.net> wrote: > Hi Ed, > > This looks really interesting. However, I wonder if perhaps the code’s > formatting got mangled? > > What made me doubtfoul was the ”insert” stanza. On my client it’s > displayed as (insert ?”) – the argument to the insert function is a > question mark followed by the special character, e.g. Right Double > Quotation Mark. (See also the screenshot in the attached file.) > > Is that correct? > > > Best regards, > Carl > > > On 18 June 2017 at 07:24, T400 <cau...@sysmatrix.net> wrote: >> I don't know if curly quotes are part of any Emacs input method but if not, >> and depending on the layout of your keyboard you could have something like >> this in your .emacs: >> >> >> (setq w32-pass-lwindow-to-system nil >> w32-pass-rwindow-to-system nil >> w32-pass-apps-to-system nil >> w32-lwindow-modifier 'super ;; Left Windows >> w32-rwindow-modifier 'super ;; Right Windows >> w32-apps-modifier 'hyper) ;; App-Menu (key to right of Right >> Windows) >> >> >> and then >> >> (global-set-key [(super \,)] (lambda () (interactive) (insert ?« ))) >> (global-set-key [(super \.)] (lambda () (interactive) (insert ?» ))) >> (global-set-key [(super \')] (lambda () (interactive) (insert ?“ ))) >> (global-set-key [(super \")] (lambda () (interactive) (insert ?” ))) >> >> Ed >> >> >> >> On 6/14/2017 07:46, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >>>> >>>> From: Carl Winbäck <c...@tunnel53.net> >>>> Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 13:13:51 +0200 >>>> >>>> I’m not able to use ”alt codes” to insert special characters when using >>>> Emacs 25.1.1 on Windows 10 Pro >>>> 64-bit. >>>> >>>> E.g. if I press Alt+0147 in order to insert an opening double quote (”), >>>> Emacs just displays C-u 147- in the >>>> mode line. This keyboard shortcut works fine in other applications such >>>> as Notepad. >>>> >>>> Any ideas how to solve this? >>> >>> I don't think this has ever worked in Emacs. You can use the other >>> methods for inserting characters by their codepoints, as pointed out >>> by Rob. >>> >>> >> >>
