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The constant downside to that is that you can no longer type these characters without considering what the next character is going to be, and pressing space if
by jorams 5y ago
The constant downside to that is that you can no longer type these characters without considering what the next character is going to be, and pressing space if you want to opt out of the combination. If you type the accented characters much more often than the quotes it can be fine, but it gets annoying very quickly while programming.
The compose key is basically an opt-in alternative to combining those characters that also allows a lot of other combinations.
- shawnz 5y agoIf you are willing to create your own layout or use a third-party layout, you could forgo dead keys and instead put all your symbols on the "AltGr" layer (which I think basically works the same as the "Compose" key).
- bradrn 5y agoThe approach I took for my keyboard layout [0] was a compromise: I kept the base layout the same as US, but added a bunch of dead keys on the AltGr layer. So e.g. ⟨ď⟩ is ‘G-% d’; ⟨ɐ⟩ is ‘G-f a’. [0] https://github.com/bradrn/Conkey https://github.com/bradrn/Conkey
- mavhc 5y agoIt is weird it's not altgr-' and altgr-^ that activate accents.
- account42 5y agoThat's what I use on Linux, in addition to direct Alt+Character for the variants I need most commonly and XCompose whatever is left.