This is an Emacs input method for Northern Saami, mimicking the
regular GNU/Linux keyboard layout for Northern Saami. The reason to
use an emacs-internal input method instead of your operating system’s
layout switcher, is that shortcuts such as C-x C-x and M-w will
still work, even though typing the x and w keys will insert č
and š, respectively.
So far only tested with a Norwegian physical keyboard and Norwegian GNU/Linux keyboard layout.
If you have a suggestion for mappings that work on other keyboard layouts, please open an issue.
Note: Emacs 27.1 now includes a (different) Northern Saami input
method. The layout in this repo (northern-saami) follows closely
what you get by simply switching your regular keyboard layout to
Saami. The layout included with Emacs (northern-sami-prefix) uses
prefixes for the “special” letters (e.g. /n gives you ŋ) and is
probably better if you normally use a non-Norwegian keyboard layout,
or want to still be able to type w :-)
Put the following in your ~/.emacs.d/init.el:
(load "/path/to/northern-saami-eim.el")
(register-input-method
"northern-saami" "Northern Saami / davvisámegiella" 'quail-use-package
"DS" "Northern Saami keyboard layout for Norwegian keyboards"
"quail/northern-saami")and do C-\, selecting northern-saami. The next time you do C-\,
it’ll just toggle the input method on and off. If you want to select
another input method later (or if you didn’t get a chance to select
one in the first place), do C-u C-\.