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A dedicated global compose key solves this problem very elegantly. Hitting the ◆ compose key (right alt for me) followed by a series of intuitive characters ins
by frosted-flakes 7y ago
A dedicated global compose key solves this problem very elegantly. Hitting the ◆ compose key (right alt for me) followed by a series of intuitive characters inserts the corresponding character.
For example:
◆ - - - produces an em dash (—)
◆ - - . produces an en dash (–)
◆ ' e produces é
◆ | c produces the cent symbol (¢)
Usually, you can just guess the combination and be right 3/4 times. Otherwise, it's fairly easy to look it up, or create it if it doesn't exist yet.
Some distros of Linux have this built-in, but I use WinCompose[1] on Windows.
[1]https://github.com/samhocevar/wincompose https://github.com/samhocevar/wincompose
- Freak_NL 7y ago> Some distros of Linux have this built-in […] Some? Nearly all of them do — usually it just needs to be activated in the desktop environment. I used a … and an — in this post using the compose key without even thinking twice. > Usually, you can just guess the combination and be right 3/4 times. ¾ even. Just guessing that it was <comp> 3 4.
- btown 7y agomacOS has something very similar with the option key, but the set of characters doesn’t include all Greek letters which is incredibly annoying: https://sites.psu.edu/symbolcodes/mac/codemac/ https://sites.psu.edu/symbolcodes/mac/codemac/
- frosted-flakes 7y agoExcept most of the key combinations are not intuitive. I could never guess them like I could with a compose key.