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From: jw@sics.se (Johan Widen)
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Subject: [gnu.emacs] Re: Can "^" ctrl-char notation be turned off?
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Date: 6 Mar 90 01:49:14 GMT
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Archive-name: emacs-8bit-diff/05-Mar-90
Original-posting-by: jw@sics.se (Johan Widen)
Original-subject: Re: Can "^" ctrl-char notation be turned off?
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>>>>> In article <110960004@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com>, bill@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Bill Frolik) writes:

bill> Is it possible in GNU Emacs to turn off the "^" notation for control
bill> characters and have them be displayed as "themselves"?  Every once in
bill> a while I like to use foreign characters, line drawing symbols, etc ...

Yes, a patch for this (relative to emacs-18.55) can be obtained by
anonymous ftp from
	sics.se (192.16.123.90)
as
	archive/emacs-18.55-8bit-diff

The way characters below 32 and above 127 are displayed depends on the
buffer local variable ctl-arrow. The patch extends the functionality
of this variable.

A question that comes up once this patch has been added is: how do I
input eight bit characters? One way of doing it is by adding keybindings
such as:

(define-key esc-map "e" 'iso-eacute-insert)

(defun iso-eacute-insert nil
  "insert eacute."
  (interactive)
  (insert "\351"))

to ~/.emacs
The example puts character code \351 (e with an acute accent according to
the ISO-8859-1 character set) on M-e

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