Making dead-keys from us_intl layout work with all characters? (fwd)

Sat, 31 May 2003 19:40:49 -0500 

        Dear readers,

        I sent the message below to debian-x, but I received no
        response.

        I would like to know if other people have solutions for the
        problem of making dead-keys work with all caracters and not
        only with letters that can receive accents (see details
        below).


        Thanks for any help, Rogério.

P.S.: Please CC'me on replies, as I'm not subscribed to debian-user or
debian-user-portuguese.

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From: Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: debian-x@lists.debian.org
Subject: Making dead-keys from us_intl layout work with all characters?
Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 15:55:39 -0300
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i


        Hi there.

        I recently switched my keyboard layout from us to us_intl, as
        I need accents (previously, I used accents on Emacs only, but
        that was too limiting).

        The problem that I see is that whenever I press a dead-key
        (like tilde), the only keys that generate a symbol after that
        are the letters that should be accented.

        This is more limiting than what I would expect, since the
        combination ~/ is quite common for shells, for instance (but
        not only this combination).

        Emacs' own iso-accents-mode does what I would like to achieve
        (that is, generates a double char sequence after I type 't),
        instead of eating both characters. :-(

        So, is there any way to achieve what I want? I already looked
        at /usr/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/us_intl with the intention of
        modifying it, but the file left me the impression that the X
        server can not generate two characters after one keypress. Is
        that correct?

        What is the appropriate way to change the behaviour to be what
        I want?


        Thanks in advance, Roger...

P.S.: Please let me know if I'm asking the wrong place; also please CC
me on replies.
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