> So the only question i have is: why? Really. Why would anyone go through the trouble of porting compose keys to macosx, when macosx native solution is so much

> So the only question i have is: why? Really. Why would anyone go through the trouble of porting compose keys to macosx, when macosx native solution is so much better? The only reason I can think of is that some people like to have the hold key action repeatedly type the specified character and the compose menu gets in the way of that. This is a relatively clever way of keeping both features active without having to repeatedly resort to terminal commands.