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Comment by rbonvall | Hacker News Reader

In Vim using digraphs:

    Ctrl-K f *   →   φ
    Ctrl-K t *   →   τ

In general:

    Ctrl-K <latin letter> * → <greek equivalent>

I love Vim's digraphs!

In emacs it's

    C-| tex

then

    \phi → φ

etc, which can be quite a bit more typing but can be easier to remember if you already know the TeX instructions for everything.

Now we just need to convince other editors to add something similar...

I think you mean C-u C-\ and then change the input type to tex.

There are other ways of inputting digraphs: C-x 8 RET lets you enter the name of any unicode symbol.

I wrote about the many ways of inputting digraphs and unicode here:

You're right, thanks. But C-u doesn't seem to be necessary, unless I have a strange setup.