On 2001-12-04T 2:25:56 +0000, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > alt+(any letter) and get a character with a diacritical marking. I > remember this being the default behaviour a while back, but I really > miss being able to spell things with the proper diacritical marks when > appropriate...
What works for me is using 'xev' to locate one of the unused keys (-> Winblows keyboard keys :)) and assign the 'SunCompose' key to it. The right application key (that thing with the context menu) has got keycode 116 with me, so I enter following line: xmodmap -e 'keycode 116 = SunCompose' Then, voila, I have a compose key. You can use two characters in combination to create a third one. For example (German Umlaute): "u would give an ue (I sorta have a problem here .. emacs thinks it needs to execute shell command on region when I enter the ue..) "o would give an oe Or, french stuff: 'A = A acute `E = E grave etc. I found a full listing of key sequences at: http://vt100.net/docs/vt420-uu/chapter6.html#T6-2 -towo, HTH
