In a message of Tue, 10 Feb 2015 15:29:00 -0600, Tim Chase writes: >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
Wow. US keyboards do not come with a 'compose' key, then? It just never occurred to me that Skip might be missing one. Oh, goodness gracious then, go with this solution. Much better than mine --though the one I pointed at is great should you suddenly need to type something in cyrillic while at a non-cyrillic keyboard. Laura -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
