dead-circumflex undefined on a french keyboard

[fdelente]

Hello.

I'm using GNU emacs 23.4 on a french laptop. When I hit the ^ key, I
get « <dead-circumflex> is undefined ».

I found a french FAQ that stated that, to solve this issue, I had to
put

define-key function-key-map dead-circumflex 'compose-circumflex-map

in my .emacs, but doing so gives me an error message on start:

Symbol's value as variable is void: dead-circumflex

How can I solve this, and get a functional ^ key?

Thanks.

--
F. Delente

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Post by fdelente
I'm using GNU emacs 23.4 on a french laptop. When I hit the ^ key, I
get « <dead-circumflex> is undefined ».
I found a french FAQ that stated that, to solve this issue, I had to
put
define-key function-key-map dead-circumflex 'compose-circumflex-map
Symbol's value as variable is void: dead-circumflex
How can I solve this, and get a functional ^ key?

You need to read: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs-lisp-intro/

[y***@gmail.com]

Hello.

Actually, I've encountered the same problem. Have you ever solved this trouble?

Thank you.

在 2012年3月19日星期一UTC+1上午11时32分37秒，fdelente写道：

Post by fdelente
Hello.
I'm using GNU emacs 23.4 on a french laptop. When I hit the ^ key, I
get « <dead-circumflex> is undefined ».
I found a french FAQ that stated that, to solve this issue, I had to
put
define-key function-key-map dead-circumflex 'compose-circumflex-map
Symbol's value as variable is void: dead-circumflex
How can I solve this, and get a functional ^ key?
Thanks.
--
F. Delente

[Michael Heerdegen]

Post by y***@gmail.com
Actually, I've encountered the same problem. Have you ever solved this trouble?

First, let me note that you can deactivate dead keys if you don't like
them. In X, something like this should do the trick:

setxkbmap fr nodeadkeys

(where `fr' means "french")

Post by y***@gmail.com

Post by fdelente
define-key function-key-map dead-circumflex 'compose-circumflex-map

This should work:

(define-key function-key-map [dead-circumflex] compose-circumflex-map)

Whether you need to quote compose-circumflex-map depends on how it was
defined - if it doesn't work for you, try

(define-key function-key-map [dead-circumflex] 'compose-circumflex-map)


Regards,

Michael.