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| From | Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.misc |
| Subject | Re: Shuttleworth ditches Unity for Gnome |
| Date | 2017-04-09 09:36 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <ekua2gFstiiU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
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Paul Sture wrote: > you could do the rest quite comfortably using the Compose key on > the VT200 (and successor) keyboards. > > For accented characters, you would hit Compose-/ and then a letter to > apply an acute accent, Compose-" for an Umlaut... (might have been the > other way around as in Compose-letter-", I forget). All quite logical. Yes, I liked the VTx00 compose key, e.g. when arriving at an Italian site for a week of C programming to discover all terminals had local keyboards, I soon got used to typing "compose ( -" and "compose ) -"
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Shuttleworth ditches Unity for Gnome RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2017-04-05 19:46 +0000
Re: Shuttleworth ditches Unity for Gnome Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2017-04-05 21:08 +0000
Re: Shuttleworth ditches Unity for Gnome Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2017-04-06 12:59 +0000
Re: Shuttleworth ditches Unity for Gnome Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.net> - 2017-04-06 17:45 +0000
Re: Shuttleworth ditches Unity for Gnome RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2017-04-06 15:02 -0400
Re: Shuttleworth ditches Unity for Gnome Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.net> - 2017-04-07 06:00 +0000
Re: Shuttleworth ditches Unity for Gnome Ian McCall <ian@eruvia.org> - 2017-04-06 21:17 +0100
Re: Shuttleworth ditches Unity for Gnome Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2017-04-08 17:12 +0200
Re: Shuttleworth ditches Unity for Gnome Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2017-04-08 20:44 +0300
Re: Shuttleworth ditches Unity for Gnome Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2017-04-09 10:25 +0200
Re: Shuttleworth ditches Unity for Gnome Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2017-04-09 09:36 +0100
Re: Shuttleworth ditches Unity for Gnome Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2017-04-09 13:13 +0300
Re: Shuttleworth ditches Unity for Gnome Ian McCall <ian@eruvia.org> - 2017-04-09 13:08 +0100
Re: Shuttleworth ditches Unity for Gnome mm0fmf <none@invalid.com> - 2017-04-07 19:29 +0100
Re: Shuttleworth ditches Unity for Gnome Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2017-04-08 15:46 +0100
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