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Re: Shuttleworth ditches Unity for Gnome

From Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk>
Newsgroups comp.misc
Subject Re: Shuttleworth ditches Unity for Gnome
Date 2017-04-09 09:36 +0100
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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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