[Dclug] Simple Emacs Question

[Dave Turvene]

Alan McConnell wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 06:34:15PM -0400, Aaron M. Ucko wrote:
>> I believe the input-method approach John suggested should work even in
>> Emacs 21.
> 	 In any mode I can go:  M-x iso-accents-mode, and I get what
> 	I want.  Why is there not some equivalent one line that I can stick
>         in my .emacs ?  (I own Stallman's "GNU Emacs Manual, thirteenth
>         edition, Version 20; and the O'Reilly "Learning GNU Emacs".
>         Neither is any help).
> 
> 	I'm speculating that the kind souls who have replied to this
> 	query are out of ideas.  Is there an E-list for emacs?  gotta
> 	be, no?  but I can't find it.
> 

Alan -

I have never used iso-accents-mode and, in 22.2, it appears to be 
obsolete.  I don't know the reason because it looks very useful.

Having said that, 1) anything executable in the minibuffer can be done 
in a script and 2) extensible macros (emacs) are generally designed to 
be flexibly combined into new macros - one liners tended towards less 
flexibility. Do something like this in your .emacs

;; create a special mode definition
(defun alans-mode ()
   "My mode and minor-mode characteristics"
   (interactive)
   (text-mode)
   (iso-accents-mode)
   ;; anything else you want,  I like auto-fill-mode
)

;; It is a bad idea to implicitly override all modes.  See info
;; or C-H-v for more on auto-mode-alist
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.txt$" . alans-mode))

HTH

Dave