Re: keyboard HOWTO

2001-07-18 Thread will trillich
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

Re: keyboard HOWTO

2001-07-15 Thread Ionel Mugurel Ciobica
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 05:39:05PM +0200, Ionel Mugurel Ciobica wrote: > In Keyboard HOWTO I found this: > > ... > > 8.5. Composing symbols > > One symbol may be constructed using several keystrokes. > > o LeftAlt-press, followed by a decimal number typed on

Re: keyboard HOWTO

2001-07-15 Thread Ionel Mugurel Ciobica
> in my rxvt (thus via X) window, i turn off numlock and my keypad > gives me > > y > x > w > v > u > t > s > w > q > p > > 0 thru 9 gives p thru y -- but each keystroke inserted a new > line above the previous. aha! ^V shows Op which > is escape (vim thinks that means 'stop insert mode') then "

Re: keyboard HOWTO

2001-07-14 Thread will trillich
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 05:39:05PM +0200, Ionel Mugurel Ciobica wrote: > In Keyboard HOWTO I found this: > > ... > > 8.5. Composing symbols > > One symbol may be constructed using several keystrokes. > > o LeftAlt-press, followed by a decimal number typed on

Re: keyboard HOWTO

2001-07-14 Thread Paul Mackinney
Carel Fellinger uttered: > On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 05:39:05PM +0200, Ionel Mugurel Ciobica wrote: > ... > > I have tried LeftAlt with numbers from keypad and the others, > > for me only keypad nrs work, on the console that is > > > P.P.S. My /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz file have this line: > >

Re: keyboard HOWTO

2001-07-14 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: keyboard HOWTO Date: Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 05:45:06PM +0200 In reply to:Joost Kooij Quoting Joost Kooij([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 05:39:05PM +0200, Ionel Mugurel Ciobica wrote: > > In Keyboard HOWTO I found this: > > > &g

Re: keyboard HOWTO

2001-07-14 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 05:39:05PM +0200, Ionel Mugurel Ciobica wrote: ... > I have tried LeftAlt with numbers from keypad and the others, for me only keypad nrs work, on the console that is > P.P.S. My /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz file have this line: > keycode 56 = Alt same here -- groetje

Re: keyboard HOWTO

2001-07-14 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 05:39:05PM +0200, Ionel Mugurel Ciobica wrote: > In Keyboard HOWTO I found this: > > ... > > 8.5. Composing symbols > > One symbol may be constructed using several keystrokes. > > o LeftAlt-press, followed by a decimal number typed on

keyboard HOWTO

2001-07-14 Thread Ionel Mugurel Ciobica
In Keyboard HOWTO I found this: ... 8.5. Composing symbols One symbol may be constructed using several keystrokes. o LeftAlt-press, followed by a decimal number typed on the keypad, followed by LeftAlt-release, yields the symbol with code given by this number. (In Unicode