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Hi,
I'm on a Norwegian keyboard layout but would like to use a US-style overlay for it such that, e.g., å corresponds to the command tied to { on a US keyboard (go to beginning of paragraph in evil mode), because they're in the same place on the keyboard. It looks like that's what this package is supposed to let me do, but it's not totally clear to me from the documentation. Am I on the right track? :)
- Eivind
OK, you need something like this:
(fix-input "norwegian-keyboard" ;; or "norwegian-postfix", I don't know
nil ;; need “default” US input method here
"new-input-method")There is a problem with “default” US input method, it does not seem to exist because it's well, default. You can try various latin-* things or define such input method on your own, it should just map symbols to themselves, and then fix-input will reverse it for you so when you have Norwegian keyboard Emacs will work as if you have US layout.
Hope it helps, tell me if it works!
Thanks! :) If you don't mind me asking: Is there any danger that I'll destroy anything? Should I then just remove the package and will that clean it up, or can I clean it up some other way?
No, no danger. It just generates a new input method that you can the enable/disable. Also, it does so on the fly, so if you remove the fix-input invocation you'll be back to your original setup.
That's amazing, thank you very much. I'll play around with it; should make my life with this new editor a lot easier.
I guess a feature request would be a "us-qwerty-default" input method, haha
Sorry, have no time to write actual elisp to help you, but try asking for such input method here:
https://emacs.stackexchange.com/
There will be people who can do it (it's pretty simple I guess when you have fresh memories about how input maps are represented).
I'll try there! And if not, I have a small project to try if I get some spare time :)
For future reference, I asked this question on emacs-se: https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/28610/default-us-input-method-for-use-with-fix-input
I'm not sure if you have found a solution, but I think it's fair to close the issue now due to the lack of activity.