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| Subject | Re: Wildly OT: pop-up virtual keyboard for Mac or Linux? |
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On 2015-02-10 15:05, Skip Montanaro wrote: > For instance, If I press and hold the "d" key, I see these choices > (ignore the capitalization of the first letter - my mistake sending > a text message to myself from my phone, and I can't seem to convert > it to lower case): Đ|¦&dðď > > I haven't the slightest idea how to type any accented characters or > common symbols using the many modifier keys on my keyboard > > Is there an X11 or Mac extension/program/app/magic thing which I can > install in either environment to get this kind of functionality? While it's not exactly a hold-down-get-a-menu, I opt for changing my (otherwise-useless) caps-lock key to an X compose key: $ setxkbmap -option compose:caps I can then hit caps-lock followed by what are generally intuitive sequences. For your first one, that would be "capital-D minus". I'm not sure what the other characters are supposed to be, so I'm not sure how to find them. But é is "compose, e, apostrophe", ñ is "compose, n, tilde", the degree sign is "compose, o, o", the € is "compose, E, equals", etc. There are loads of these documented in (on my machine, where my locale is en_US.UTF-8) /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose Some of them are a little less intuitive, though the majority of the time I can just guess them (I'd never typed "Đ" before, but guessed and was right). Otherwise I search that above file. This also has the advantage that it should work in every X application, including Unicode-aware terminal applications (in Unicode-aware terminals). Adding some sort of press-and-hold UI would limit it to those applications that chose to support it (or even *could* support it). > While I'm a touch typist, I almost never use auto-repeat, which is > the "binding" of held keys in most environments I agree, as vi/vim makes it easy to insert multiples of the same character (or characters) akin to what you describe in Emacs. -tkc
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Re: Wildly OT: pop-up virtual keyboard for Mac or Linux? Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2015-02-10 15:29 -0600
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