insert sterling character

Hi,

I have a US keyboard, but I'd like to remap Ctrl-Shift-$ to produce a sterling 
symbol. I have searched info, but can't seem to find a function to insert a 
literal character at the point. Can anyone tell me what function ???? must be 
to get this simple mapping right?

(global-set-key [?\C-$] (lambda () (??? '£))

(Please excuse any syntactical errors, I haven't read the elisp manual...)

Christopher
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RE: insert sterling character

> From: 
> help-emacs-windows-bounces+f.j.wright=qmul.ac.uk <at> gnu.org 
> [mailto:help-emacs-windows-bounces+f.j.wright=qmul.ac.uk <at> gnu.o
> rg] On Behalf Of Christopher G D Tipper
> Sent: Thursday, 1 July 2004 12:57 pm
> To: help-emacs-windows <at> gnu.org
> Subject: [h-e-w] insert sterling character
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a US keyboard, but I'd like to remap Ctrl-Shift-$ to 
> produce a sterling symbol. I have searched info, but can't 
> seem to find a function to insert a literal character at the 
> point. Can anyone tell me what function ???? must be to get 
> this simple mapping right?
> 
> (global-set-key [?\C-$] (lambda () (??? '£))
> 
> (Please excuse any syntactical errors, I haven't read the 
> elisp manual...)
> 
> Christopher

Any of the following should insert a pound sterling character (i.e. they
work for me):

(insert ?£)

(insert 2211)

Re: insert sterling character

Dr Francis J. Wright wrote:

>Any of the following should insert a pound sterling character (i.e. they
>work for me):
>
>(insert ?£)
>
>(insert 2211)
>
>(insert ?\x8a3)
>
>The latter two have the advantage of not needing a pound sterling key!
>  
>
They also have the disadvantage of being dependant on the internal 
character representation, which will change from emacs-mule to utf-8 in 
future (probably 22.1)

Another alternative is:

 (insert (make-char 'latin-iso8859-1 163))

Re: insert sterling character

Dr Francis J. Wright wrote:

> To write an interactive command (rather than just a Lisp function), you will
> need something like this:
> (global-set-key [?\C-$] (lambda () (interactive "*") (insert 2211)))

Couldn't that "*" cause a bit of trouble?

     (global-set-key [?\C-$] (lambda () (interactive) (insert 163)))

works for me and is a bit simpler.

Pete

RE: insert sterling character

> From: 
> help-emacs-windows-bounces+f.j.wright=qmul.ac.uk <at> gnu.org 
> [mailto:help-emacs-windows-bounces+f.j.wright=qmul.ac.uk <at> gnu.o
> rg] On Behalf Of Peter Kaiser
> Sent: Thursday, 1 July 2004 4:44 pm
> To: GNU emacs for Windows
> Subject: Re: [h-e-w] insert sterling character
> 
> Dr Francis J. Wright wrote:
> 
> > To write an interactive command (rather than just a Lisp function), 
> > you will need something like this:
> > (global-set-key [?\C-$] (lambda () (interactive "*") (insert 2211)))
> 
> Couldn't that "*" cause a bit of trouble?
> 
>      (global-set-key [?\C-$] (lambda () (interactive) (insert 163)))
> 
> works for me and is a bit simpler.
> 
> Pete

The "*" just means that Emacs complains a bit sooner if the buffer is
read-only.  It's not essential; I just feel that it's probably good form to
include it in any interactive function that will modify the buffer.

I guess 163 is the UK-ASCII code for £ and 2211 is the (current) internal
Emacs code.  If I enter £ into an Emacs buffer by pressing the £ key on my
keyboard and then do C-x =, Emacs tells me that the character code is 2211,
which is why I used that.

RE: insert sterling character

Thanks for all your advice.

The command I put in _emacs in the end was:
(global-set-key [?\C-$] (lambda () (interactive "*") (insert (make-char 'latin-
iso8859-1 163))))

It works.

Christopher

On 1 Jul 2004 at 16:52, Dr Francis J. Wright wrote:

> > Dr Francis J. Wright wrote:
> > 
> > > To write an interactive command (rather than just a Lisp function), 
> > > you will need something like this:
> > > (global-set-key [?\C-$] (lambda () (interactive "*") (insert 2211)))
> > 
> > Couldn't that "*" cause a bit of trouble?
> > 
> >      (global-set-key [?\C-$] (lambda () (interactive) (insert 163)))
> > 
> > works for me and is a bit simpler.
> > 
> > Pete
> 
> The "*" just means that Emacs complains a bit sooner if the buffer is
> read-only.  It's not essential; I just feel that it's probably good form to
> include it in any interactive function that will modify the buffer.
> 

Network switching with GNUClient & GNUServ

Re: Network switching with GNUClient & GNUServ

On Wednesday, July 07, "Ludwig, Mark" <mark.ludwig <at> ugs.com> wrote:
>I use Emacs on my Windows laptop.  I have added the registry stuff so I
>have an "Edit with Emacs" option on the context menu for every file
>type; this invokes path\gnuclientw.exe -q -F "%L" and works great as
>long as the same network interface(s) are active that were when the
>server was started.  When the network interfaces come or go, the GNU
>Client seems unable to communicate with the server, or the server is
>unable to manipulate Emacs.

>Has anyone else noticed this - and solved it?

Yes.  There are two versions of gnuserv - one which
uses TCP/IP and one which uses mailboxes for
communication.  Problems such as you have observed
will affect the former.  (Mine breaks if I just tell
ZoneAlarm to shut down 'net access.)  You would
probably be happier with the mailbox version.
Unfortunately, I can no longer find that one in the
place where I originally got it.  Perhaps someone else
knows from where it can be downloaded nowadays.

Regards,
  David V.

RE: Network switching with GNUClient & GNUServ

Francis Wright has a copy of Nico François' gnuserv port (which uses
mailslots) here:

http://centaur.maths.qmw.ac.uk/Emacs/files/gnuserv.zip

This is the version I'm using with great success.

-Eli

-----Original Message-----
From: help-emacs-windows-bounces+eli.daniel=verizon.net <at> gnu.org
[mailto:help-emacs-windows-bounces+eli.daniel=verizon.net <at> gnu.org] On Behalf
Of David Vanderschel
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 11:29 PM
To: help-emacs-windows <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: [h-e-w] Network switching with GNUClient & GNUServ

On Wednesday, July 07, "Ludwig, Mark" <mark.ludwig <at> ugs.com> wrote:
>I use Emacs on my Windows laptop.  I have added the registry stuff so I 
>have an "Edit with Emacs" option on the context menu for every file 
>type; this invokes path\gnuclientw.exe -q -F "%L" and works great as 
>long as the same network interface(s) are active that were when the 
>server was started.  When the network interfaces come or go, the GNU 
>Client seems unable to communicate with the server, or the server is 
>unable to manipulate Emacs.

>Has anyone else noticed this - and solved it?

Yes.  There are two versions of gnuserv - one which
uses TCP/IP and one which uses mailboxes for
communication.  Problems such as you have observed
will affect the former.  (Mine breaks if I just tell
ZoneAlarm to shut down 'net access.)  You would
probably be happier with the mailbox version.
Unfortunately, I can no longer find that one in the
place where I originally got it.  Perhaps someone else
knows from where it can be downloaded nowadays.

Regards,
  David V.

Re: how to change my emacs fonts to Lucida Console?

On Die Jun 29 2004 at 10:31, "linhua" <linhua <at> sjtu.edu.cn> wrote:

> Hi all:
>     I have tried for a long time, but I can't find any related articles. Can anyone tell we how to change my Emacs'
font to Lucida
> Console or any fonts else exist in windows 2000?
I use something like 
;;; Set the default font and frame size
(setq default-frame-alist
      '((background-mode . light)
        (right-fringe . 0)
        (left-fringe)
        (font . "-outline-ProggyCleanTT-normal-r-normal-normal-16-120-96-96-c-70-iso8859-1")
        (border-color . "black")
        (tool-bar-lines . 1)
        (menu-bar-lines . 1)
        (background-color . "AntiqueWhite2")
        (nil)))

to find out which fonts there is the menu point Options -> Set
Font/Fontset that lets you try fonts. M-x describe-fontset tells you
then the name of the font which you can insert into lines as above.

HTH
Martin