PS. I just found some interesting info over at https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/AutoHotKey
A guy named Jonas Öster has created a hack for supporting Windows Alt+keypad in Emacs. I haven’t tried it yet but it definitely looks useful. On 20 June 2017 at 09:27, Carl Winbäck <c...@tunnel53.net> wrote: > 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. >>>> >>>> >>> >>>
