The Compose Key is fantastic. It's a tragedy it's not enabled by default. On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Mike Wey <mike-...@example.com> wrote:
> On 06/30/2011 11:45 PM, Daniel Gibson wrote: > >> Am 30.06.2011 23:41, schrieb simendsjo: >> >>> On 30.06.2011 23:39, bearophile wrote: >>> >>>> Jonathan M Davis: >>>> >>>> Actually, I find the backticks to be by far the most pleasant way to >>>>> get raw >>>>> strings in D. >>>>> >>>> >>>> I don't have backticks on my keyboard, so I use them only when they >>>> are needed. They have even removed the backticks in the Python2 -> >>>> Python3 transition partially because of this (and partially because >>>> there is a more obvious way to do it in Python, and Python tries to >>>> keep only one obvious way to do things). >>>> >>>> Bye, >>>> bearophile >>>> >>> >>> Yeah, I hate backticks too.. I have to press Shift+` followed by space. >>> But often space won't work as the text editor understands that space >>> cannot be accented or something. So I often press ` twice and backspace >>> to delete the last one. This gives me 4 key presses just for a single >>> character... Wee... >>> >> >> On Linux/X11 this could be fixed by disabling "dead keys" (at least as >> long as you don't need them to place accents on letters, which depends >> on the languages you're writing in). >> Dunno what the equivalent to this setting for Windows or OSX is though. >> >> Cheers, >> - Daniel >> > > And if you still need some accents you can enable the compose key: > http://www.hermit.org/Linux/**ComposeKeys.html<http://www.hermit.org/Linux/ComposeKeys.html> > > -- > Mike Wey >
