Re: emacs22: lost iso-accents-mode

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Umm,  I occasionally need to input German and French accented
> characters,
> although I use English 99.5% of the time.  I don't care whether the
> functionality is provided by iso-accents-mode or by some other
> mechanism
> as long as it's simple to use.  I just need the capability.
> 
> >  It's
> > quite possible that the same functionality is available in core Emacs
> > (or else the package won't be obsoleted).
> 
> And, the alternative is . . . ?

Two alternatives, actually:

 . Activate a suitable input method ("C-\" or "C-u C-\").  "C-h C-\"
   will show help on how to use an input method to type accented
   characters.

 . Load iso-transl, and then use the ALT modifier (if it exists) or
   "C-x 8" together with an accent character to modify the following
   letter.  "C-x 8 C-h" will list all available translations.  This
   works for Latin-1 only, but that seems to be your case.

> I looked into the NEWS file of emacs22, but I didn't find any
> mention to iso-accents-mode:
> 
>   $ egrep -i accents /usr/share/doc/emacs22-common/etc/NEWS
>   $

Wrong search string, the package's name is iso-acc:

  *** iso-acc.el is now obsolete.  Use one of the latin input methods instead.