On Wednesday, February 11, 2015 at 11:55:19 AM UTC+5:30, Kushal Kumaran wrote: > Skip Montanaro writes: > > > I know this is way off-topic for this group, but I figured if anyone > > in the online virtual communities I participate in would know the > > answer, the Pythonistas would... Google has so far not been my friend > > in this realm. > > > > One of the things I really like about my Skype keyboard (and likely > > other "soft" keyboards on Android) is that when you hold down a "key" > > for a brief moment, a little mini keyboard pops up, from which you can > > easily choose various accented variants and other symbols. For > > instance, If I press and hold the "d" key, I see these choices (ignore > > the capitalization of the first letter - my mistake sending a text > > message to myself from my phone, and I can't seem to convert it to > > lower case): Đ|¦&dðď > > > > While I'm a touch typist, I almost never use auto-repeat, which is the > > "binding" of held keys in most environments (curse you, IBM and your > > Selectric!). These days I find my self needing accented characters > > much more frequently than key repeat (C-u 2 5 - suffices in Emacs to > > bat out 25 hyphens). Being an American with an American keyboard, I > > haven't the slightest idea how to type any accented characters or > > common symbols using the many modifier keys on my keyboard, and no key > > caps display what the various options are. And I'm getting kind of > > tired of going to Google and searching for "degree symbol". :-/ > > > > Is there an X11 or Mac extension/program/app/magic thing which I can > > install in either environment to get this kind of functionality? I'm > > thinking that if you hold down a key for the auto-repeat interval, > > instead of the key repeat thing making all sorts of duplicates, a > > little window would pop up over/near the insertion point, which I can > > navigate with the arrow keys, then hit RET to accept or ESC (or > > similar) to cancel. It need not be perfect. It might (for example) > > only work in certain environments (Chrome, Emacs, vim, Firefox). > > Anyplace to start. It need even be written in Python (though that > > would be cool.) I think that once something like this caught hold, it > > would fairly quickly take over from the dark lords of auto-repeat. > > > > For very, very occasional use in emacs, there's C-x 8 RET (insert-char).
For slightly more frequent use (emacs-users) 1. Find a symbol such as ° maybe using google and paste it into emacs Does it exist in tex input method? To find out 2. Turn on tex input method (in some buffer) ie C-x RET C-\ and give tex (or whatever 3. C-u C-x = will tell info about the char. In particular it says: To input type \degree in tex input method I guess for diacritical marks one could use one of the latin-n input methods The above applied to á and latin-2-postfix says that á can be input with a' M-x describe-input-method will tell you others like ------------+---------+---------- acute | ' | a' -> á ogonek | , | a, -> ą diaeresis | " | a" -> ä circumflex | ^ | a^ -> â breve | ~ | a~ -> ă cedilla | , | c, -> ç caron | ~ | c~ -> č dbl. acute | : | o: -> ő ring | . | u. -> ů dot | . | z. -> ż stroke | / | d/ -> đ others | / | s/ -> ß -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
