Em Fri, 14 May 2021 12:08:36 +0100 Edward Cree ecree.xilinx@gmail.com escreveu:
For anyone who doesn't know about it: X has this wonderful thing called the Compose key[1]. For instance, type ⎄--- to get —, or ⎄<" for “. Much more mnemonic than Unicode codepoints; and you can extend it with user-defined sequences in your ~/.XCompose file.
Good tip. I haven't use composite for years, as US-intl with dead keys is enough for 99.999% of my needs.
Btw, at least on Fedora with Mate, Composite is disabled by default. It has to be enabled first using the same tool that allows changing the Keyboard layout[1].
Yet, typing an EN DASH for example, would be "<composite>--.", with is 4 keystrokes instead of just two ('--'). It means twice the effort ;-)
[1] KDE, GNome, Mate, ... have different ways to enable it and to select what key would be considered <composite>:
https://dry.sailingissues.com/us-international-keyboard-layout.html https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ComposeKey
Thanks, Mauro