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On Mac, hold down the "c" key and a little menu with accented versions (ç, ć, č) appears, with numbers to choose which one. The flip side is that holding down

by dubya 5y ago

On Mac, hold down the "c" key and a little menu with accented versions (ç, ć, č) appears, with numbers to choose which one. The flip side is that holding down letters or numbers doesn't repeat them on a Mac.

toastal 5y ago
The (Neo)Vim digraph is `C'`: Ctrl+k, Shift+c, '
boondaburrah 5y ago
My old mac muscle memory is telling me option+e, c. I don't have one anymore to test though, but I used to use the mac layout on Linux for a while exactly for composing using alt.
- waterhouse 5y ago
  Hmm, I get ´c when doing option-e c. I feel like it should work to combine the two, but ... Looks like that functionality only applies to the vowels (and not y): á´b´c´dé´f´g´hí´j´k´l´m´nó´p´q´r´s´tú´v´w´x´y´z.
jfk13 5y ago
I'm not seeing that behavior; my letter/number keys simply repeat. But I'm sure I've seen it before. I guess there may be an option somewhere to enable/disable it, but offhand I can't seem to find it. Or maybe this has changed (back) in a recent OS update? I'm running 12.0beta on this machine.
- redwall_hp 5y ago
  It's been around since Lion or Mountain Lion, IIRC. There's a toggle in keyboard settings to choose between repeating or hold-for-alternate behavior (like how iOS works). The substitution behavior is the default, but if you already had repeat mode on it may have carried forward. The old way was option+e and a vowel for an accute accent mark, but I don't think that works with consonants.
  - jfk13 5y ago
    Yes, I expected a toggle in the keyboard settings, but I can't seem to find one on Monterey. (What exactly is it labeled, and where located? Maybe I'm just being blind...) The dead-keys like Opt-E for acute only work with a small set of letters in the standard US keyboard layout, although it's possible for a different layout to support more -- subject to the combinations existing as precomposed characters in Unicode. (For other combinations, you'd need to enter a combining accent after the letter, and rely on the font to supports placing it properly.)

by dubya 5y ago

toastal 5y ago

The (Neo)Vim digraph is `C'`: Ctrl+k, Shift+c, '

boondaburrah 5y ago

My old mac muscle memory is telling me option+e, c. I don't have one anymore to test though, but I used to use the mac layout on Linux for a while exactly for composing using alt.

waterhouse 5y ago
Hmm, I get ´c when doing option-e c. I feel like it should work to combine the two, but ... Looks like that functionality only applies to the vowels (and not y): á´b´c´dé´f´g´hí´j´k´l´m´nó´p´q´r´s´tú´v´w´x´y´z.

jfk13 5y ago

I'm not seeing that behavior; my letter/number keys simply repeat. But I'm sure I've seen it before. I guess there may be an option somewhere to enable/disable it, but offhand I can't seem to find it. Or maybe this has changed (back) in a recent OS update? I'm running 12.0beta on this machine.

redwall_hp 5y ago
It's been around since Lion or Mountain Lion, IIRC. There's a toggle in keyboard settings to choose between repeating or hold-for-alternate behavior (like how iOS works). The substitution behavior is the default, but if you already had repeat mode on it may have carried forward. The old way was option+e and a vowel for an accute accent mark, but I don't think that works with consonants.
- jfk13 5y ago
  Yes, I expected a toggle in the keyboard settings, but I can't seem to find one on Monterey. (What exactly is it labeled, and where located? Maybe I'm just being blind...) The dead-keys like Opt-E for acute only work with a small set of letters in the standard US keyboard layout, although it's possible for a different layout to support more -- subject to the combinations existing as precomposed characters in Unicode. (For other combinations, you'd need to enter a combining accent after the letter, and rely on the font to supports placing it properly.)