On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 05:22:09PM +0200, Ionel Mugurel Ciobica wrote:
> will trillich bewilderedly inquired:
> >
> > how can i type an accented e? or a c-cedilla? or a u-dieresis?
> >
>
> There are many ways to do that. If you use xterm, you can get a Meta
> key working and the 8bit characters are obtained by the 7bit ones
> with meta key. Examples:
>
> n is decimal 110, hex 6e, octal 156, bits 01101110
> î is decimal 238, hex ee, octal 356, bits 11101110
>
> so î is Meta-n
>
> g is decimal 103, hex 67, octal 147, bits 01100111
> ç is decimal 231, hex e7, octal 347, bits 11100111
>
> so ç is Meta-g
if meta = alt (left or right) then
left-alt n yields n
right-alt n yields n
maybe it's the 'windows' key--
left-windows n gives \en (had to escape it with ^V, to find that out)
right-windows n does the same
control-n activates a vim feature (cool!)
> An other way is to use the compose key. In my system that is
> Ctrl-K, but some time is the Scroll Lock.
scroll lock for me turns on my keyboard led. (but doesn't
operate like ^S to stop output, which surprises me.)
> If you type Ctrl-K then ^ then i you get î. Ctrl-K then i then ^
> is the same. ç is obtained with , and c or c and , and so on.
> This is from kernel so it should work on many applications.
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/iso8859-1/Compose can show you more
> combinations (if you use Latin1 encoding).
i press control-k, then ^, then i and i get
î
yay! ... but it only works in VI, not at the console/shell
prompt. hmm.
> An other way is to customize your keyboard. You have to do it
> in two steps because X and the console are using different
> files.
>
> /etc/X11/Xmodmap is for the X, but you may have a file
> .xmodmap in your $HOME. This file you can generate
> with xkeycaps, where you have to select your keyboard
> and customize the keys you want. Click the right button
> of the mouse on the letter e. Select edit keysym or key
> and add a value (for instance egrave) in the third position.
> Make sure you configure a key to be your AltGr. You can select the
> right key or the win keys. The value for that is Mode_switch.
>
> Save the file as .xmodmap and add in your .xsession file
> the entry
> /usr/bin/X11/xmodmap .xmodmap
>
> Then you get ebreve (é) using AltGr-e.
>
> Of course you can edit the file by hand.
>
> For console you have to edit the /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz.
> The mechanism is similar, for instance the line:
> keycode 18 = e
> has to be changed in
> keycode 18 = +e +E +egrave +Egrave
>
> and also make sure you configure one key to be your AltGr
> key. If you have win keys you do:
> keycode 125 = AltGr
> keycode 126 = AltGr
>
> otherwise your right Alt will do from:
> keycode 100 = Alt
> to
> keycode 100 = AltGr
>
>
>
> I hope this help.
>
> Ionel
>
> P.S. If you start customizing your /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz
> you will loose some options. I had to add manually
> control alt keycode 59 = Console_1
> control alt keycode 60 = Console_2
> ...
> alt keycode 105 = Decr_Console
> alt keycode 106 = Incr_Console
> etc.
> to get back some useful stuff.
>
>
> P.P.S. You can configure your Fx keys to insert some text you need
> often, by replacing the line
> string Fx = "\033[[D"
> with
> string Fx = "your text here"
>
> such as:
>
> string F10 = " ãâîºþÃÂÎªÞ "
sheesh. that's a bit daunting for my poor sleep-deficit brain
right now. but at least i can get it to work in VI, which is a
start. i'll look into this stuff later. thanks!
--
DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #49 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
:
Looking to ENCODE OR DECODE SOME ROT-13 TEXT? No problem.
"Vg'f rnfl jvgu Ivz." It's a simple alphabet substitution where
each letter changes to its counterpart 13 places away in the
alphabet (a<->n, g<->t, etc) . Open the text in Vim, then
select it (type "v" at one end of the text to encode/decode,
then move to the other end) and then type "g?".
Or, to rot-13 a whole line, just "g??". That's all!
(Try ":help g?" for more info.)
Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...
