TeX input mode [Oct. 16th, 2012|11:35 pm] Tobin Fricke's Lab Notebook

I've often wished for an easier way to enter unicode math symbols, for example by typing the LaTeX code. Instead the only way I know is to google for the symbol, which has got to be most complicated way of entering a symbol.



But I just found out that EMACS has a "TeX input mode", where you just type TeX symbols and they magically turn into unicode symbols.



For example, if you type



\forall x \in R, x^2 \geq 0



you get



∀ x ∈ R, x² ≥ 0



Awesome! If only I could get this input mode system-wide.



Invoke it with M-x set-input-method and then TeX . I found out about this via this stackoverflow answer.