Emacs hot-keys in non-English keyboard layout

Posted on Sat, 10 Jun 2017 in Editors & IDE • Tagged with emacs, layout

You are lucky if you need to use standard English keyboard layout only. I use Russian layout as often as English one. Everywhere hot-keys work OK, except Emacs. Maybe because it has an ASCII-is-enough-for-everybody legacy or other reasons, Emacs uses own weird way to switch layouts (or Input Method in Emacs terms): C-\. Instead of using that "standard" way I found another option.


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