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I miss using Linux as my daily driver because its compose key support was unsurpassed. Easy to set up and to add sequences if the mood strikes you. Beyond sim
by colanderman 5y ago
I miss using Linux as my daily driver because its compose key support was unsurpassed. Easy to set up and to add sequences if the mood strikes you. Beyond simple accent marks, it could handle arrows, basic smileys, and even the Greek letter pi.
Meanwhile on macOS Big Sur, Karabiner seems to no longer work correctly (and was a royal pain to set up besides), the US International layout doesn't include a proper compose key (it just turns all punctuation keys into dead keys), and the dead keys don't even make all basic combinations (e.g. Polish "ć" or Esperanto "ĉ").
Seriously, Apple had to go out of their way to screw this up! Just tack the Unicode modifier character (e.g. U+0301) onto the end and run Unicode normalization! I get that you don't want this when you have dead keys doubling as normal keys, but dedicated dead keys (e.g. Alt+E) should just always create the character you're asking of them.
Just let me set one of my modifier keys to a proper extensible compose key!!