Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 14:28:04 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr> To: Brian Sobolak <sobolak@mindspring.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: emacs and greek support (was: home pc use) Message-ID: <20011123122804.GC10577@hades.hell.gr>
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On 2001-11-23 03:15:51, Brian Sobolak wrote:
> Thursday, November 22, 2001, 11:57:52 AM, you wrote:
>
> [ talking about Emacs ]
>
> GK> Sure. It's so customizable, that new users will tend to drown in an
> GK> ocean of customizable knobs, in fact. I customarily use emacs to edit
> GK> plain text files or C, Perl, HTML, SGML, and a ton of other languages.
>
> Just out of curiousity, how does it handle Greek? Do you use the same
> environment to edit files in English as Greek (e.g. the same binary)?
Sure. I use a greek console font on my console, and then fire up
emacs with:
$ emacs -nw --unibyte
By having the following in my .emacs file, I don't even need Mule
support to edit Greek text:
(standard-display-8bit 128 256)
(set-input-mode (car (current-input-mode))
(nth 1 (current-input-mode))
0)
This is not the `official' way of using languages and encodings in
Emacs, since in X11 that usually involves Mule and the C-\ commands,
but this works nicely on the console and I mostly use FreeBSD on the
console :)
-giorgos
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