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I just upgraded to Kubuntu 22.04 (coming from 18.04) and emacs
is not behaving as it did before. When I try to get a
superscript, for example x^2, I type in the x, then try for the
hat. Before, when I did that and followed with the 2 (or
anything else) I got that superscripted. Now I get a new tiny
window seen here:
www.dieterbritz.dk/Screenshot_20230407_112249.png
but nothing I do gets me the superscript. Sometimes it appears
elsewhere on the page instead of where my cursor is.

Is this bug or a feature? If the latter, how do I use it,
what do I have to do to get the superscript?
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Dieter Britz
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On 7 April 2023 11:56 db, wrote:

I just upgraded to Kubuntu 22.04 (coming from 18.04) and emacs
is not behaving as it did before. When I try to get a
superscript, for example x^2, I type in the x, then try for the
hat. Before, when I did that and followed with the 2 (or
anything else) I got that superscripted. Now I get a new tiny
window seen here:
www.dieterbritz.dk/Screenshot_20230407_112249.png
but nothing I do gets me the superscript. Sometimes it appears
elsewhere on the page instead of where my cursor is.

Is this bug or a feature? If the latter, how do I use it,
what do I have to do to get the superscript?

Are you doing "X^2" or "X C-x 8^2"? The latter gives me: X#

thanks to iso-trans.el, part of Emacs. See here: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TypographicalPunctuationMarks


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On 07.04.2023 12.12, G-|s Hillenius wrote:

On 7 April 2023 11:56 db, wrote:

I just upgraded to Kubuntu 22.04 (coming from 18.04) and emacs
is not behaving as it did before. When I try to get a
superscript, for example x^2, I type in the x, then try for the
hat. Before, when I did that and followed with the 2 (or
anything else) I got that superscripted. Now I get a new tiny
window seen here:
www.dieterbritz.dk/Screenshot_20230407_112249.png
but nothing I do gets me the superscript. Sometimes it appears
elsewhere on the page instead of where my cursor is.

Is this bug or a feature? If the latter, how do I use it,
what do I have to do to get the superscript?

Are you doing "X^2" or "X C-x 8^2"? The latter gives me: X-#

thanks to iso-trans.el, part of Emacs. See here: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TypographicalPunctuationMarks

I'm trying to write x^2 but it won't let me. I have now
produced a small file containing "x^{..} x_{...}" which
I can insert when I want super- or subscripts. This will
help but it's roundabout and should not be necessary.
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Dieter Britz

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On Fri, 7 Apr 2023 11:56:09 +0200, db <dieterhansbritz@gmail.com> wrote:

Now I get a new tiny window seen here: www.dieterbritz.dk/Screenshot_20230407_112249.png

I fail to see it but...
If you get a small window somewhere then it is not Emacs, but your desktop environment that is intervening. Often the desktop environment will let you define 'hot' keys that do something special.
As a general suggestion: all modern desktop environments allow the use of combining keys (compose keys, multi-keys). For example ^ 2 will yield ^ 2
(as it should), but multi-key ^ 2 will yield -# (superscript 2).
Major advantage over Emacs' typopunct.el cs. is that this works in *all* windows, not only in Emacs.
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USEnet <jvromans@squirrel.nl> writes:

On Fri, 7 Apr 2023 11:56:09 +0200, db <dieterhansbritz@gmail.com> wrote:

As a general suggestion: all modern desktop environments allow the use of combining keys (compose keys, multi-keys). For example ^ 2 will yield ^ 2
(as it should), but multi-key ^ 2 will yield -# (superscript 2).

I thought it would be possible, but did mot know how. Thanks.
Is there also something for subscript?
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Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof
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On Sat, 08 Apr 2023 00:36:43 +0200, Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl>
wrote:

I thought it would be possible, but did mot know how. Thanks.
Is there also something for subscript?

Your XCompose file will reveal all the details :).

It is usually /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose but may depend on
your distro.

(And, to answer your question, it is Compose underscore 2 ).

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USEnet <jvromans@squirrel.nl> writes:

On Sat, 08 Apr 2023 00:36:43 +0200, Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl>
wrote:

I thought it would be possible, but did mot know how. Thanks.
Is there also something for subscript?

Your XCompose file will reveal all the details :).

It is usually /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose but may depend on your distro.

(And, to answer your question, it is Compose underscore 2 ).

Thanks. I have something to keep me out of my sleep. ;-)
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Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof
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