[plt-dev] Unicode is a pain

2009/9/16 Anthony Cowley <acowley at seas.upenn.edu>:
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 7:03 AM, Richard Cobbe <cobbe at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>> Interesting.  I wasn't aware of TeX input mode and googled for it, but all
>> I got was TeX-mode (well, plus one mode for editing APL source), which
>> can't be what you're referring to.  Could you provide some pointers?
>
> It's an input-method rather than a normal mode, but I hope a more
> expert Emacs user can chime in here as quick googling wasn't terribly
> productive for me either. Here's a blog post by someone who was
> pleased to find out about it themselves,
> <http://www.nobugs.org/blog/archives/2009/09/02/emacs-unicode-fu/>
>
> In Aquamacs, I just hit C-\ to toggle it, and then all the usual TeX
> macros work, with auto-completion.

That's a bit different than DrScheme: in DrScheme, it isn't a mode;
you hit control-\ after typing a tex command. It would be good to have
a way to get autocompletion there, but I'm hesitant to add yet another
mode.

Robby