Am Sonntag, 26. Februar 2012, 03:32:58 schrieb Philip Webb: > In Gvim I can enter 'e-umlaut' via the keystrokes 'control-k e : ', ie ë . > > Kate has a Vi mode, which seems to reproduce Vim fairly well, > but there's no sign of 'control-k' or any substitute. > > KDE System Settings has a menu for setting a compose key, > but tests with 'left-control' & 'pause' in Konsole & Kate did nothing. > I tried in Kate with Luxi Mono & Courier(IBM), Konsole with LM & > Fixed(Misc). I don't have the KDE desktop pkgs installed, but use many apps > & it shouldn't make a difference. > > Does anyone know if & how accented characters cb entered in KDE apps ?
http://userbase.kde.org/Tutorials/ComposeKey Typing Macrons, Umlauts, Accents, ... The compose key will be now whatever you have configured it to be, e. g. right logo. Macrons compose + shift + hyphen then <vowel > or compose + underscore then <vowel > --> āēīōū ĀĒĪŌŪ Umlauts compose + shift + <single quote> then <vowel > or compose + <double quotes> then <vowel > --> äëïöü ÄËÏÖÜ google is your friend. -- #163933
