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[Yves Pocchiola <address@hidden>]

Joris van der Hoeven wrote:

> > From my first experience, I don't manage to use the characters data of 
> > Scheme (guile) under TeXmacs. For exemple the usual  "#\a" followed by 
> > enter gives "#<a>"  which after an other "enter" for evaluation gives an 
> > error message. The simpler command" \a enter " gives also the same problem
> > Do you know if there is a specific way to get scheme characters ?
> >    
>
> This is due to the fact that \ has a special meaning in TeXmacs:
> it is used to enter special markup. You should enter the \ character
> using "S-F5 \". There has been a discussion on whether we should make
> the \ keystroke default to the \ character inside sessions.
> I haven't made a decision yet. Maybe we should let it default
> to the \ character in textual input inside computer algebra sessions.
>
>
>  
Thank you for your answer.
Why not to have a button on the tool bar to switch between a Texmacs 
keyboard shortcuts mode and the on going external session keyboard 
shortcuts mode ?