Questions tagged [characters]
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How to make Emacs not intercept Command-Ctrl-Space, used for Special Characters on macOS?
On macOS the CommandCtrlSpace shortcut opens an Emoji picker which can be expanded into a Special Characters picker.
But when I type this shortcut on Emacs in order to input a character, instead of ...
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Composition of the Arabic letters Lam and Alef in Emacs
When I insert the character ل (the Arabic letter Lam) followed by ا (the Arabic letter Alef) the result would be لا.
In other text editors when I have the word لا I can mark (select) each of its ...
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How to change comments characters in assembly mode
I am editing .s files whit an assembly-to-binary translator that does not accept ; as a comment delimiter but accept C like comments (namely // and /* ... */).
I tried to modify comment-start ...
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Set font family for comments
In coq mode I have ligatures being used: instead of "fun", it shows λ in the programming code. But in the comments lambda transformed into a character I can't even copy, so I'll attach a screenshot:
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extra e character is inserted before every character
I have a problem every so often where I accidentally hit a key combination (don't know what it is) and I get into a state where the letter e (sometimes it is another letter IIRC) is inserted before ...
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Uppercase instead of lowercase Greek letter shown in Julia mode
I am writing Julia code in Emacs, which allows the use of unicode characters in the source code. However, some symbols come out looking weird. For example the Greek letter nu:
becomes:
Does anyone ...
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Nonexistent newline on display after using outorg
I'm using outorg to convert an elisp file to an org file and then back to an elisp file via (outorg-convert-to-org) and (outorg-convert-back-to-code). When I do this conversion I notice that it looks ...
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Change line length calculation of a certain character displayed with multiple glyphs
I am differentiating em-dashes (—) from hypens (-) in emacs using this code in my .emacs:
(let* ((glyph-em-dash (make-glyph-code ?\u002D 'font-lock-function-name-face)) )
(aset standard-...
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Problem with accented greek vowels
I cannot type a Greek accented vowel in emacs.
In Xorg, I use the el keyboard layout and in other applications (e.g. Firefox) the normal way to type an accented vowel (e.g. ά) is, first the colon ...
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Automated conversion to real accented characters
I use org-mode to maintain a to-read list of articles. An entry in the list is produced by a function that I wrote in ELisp. The function uses bibtex-completion-get-value for the title and bibtex-...
