Suvayu Ali wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 01:55:56PM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> I take it the official way to enter a euro symbol in vi/vim is AltGr+4.
>> I find this works about 20% of the time.
>> It usually works if it is the first character entered.
>> But most of the time it does not work - I just get a "4".

> I am not sure about VIm, but for most apps[1] I use a compose key.
> 
>   setxkbmap -option compose:lwin
> 
> The above allows me to enter the € symbol by typing <Left Windows>e=.
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Footnotes:
> 
> [1] Actually everything except Emacs.  Emacs has many input methods of
>     it's own; I prefer a TeX-like input method.

Thanks very much.
That is certainly helpful, and I shall adopt your method
if no-one suggests a way of entering shortcuts in System Settings,
or somewhere like that.


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