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Truly a joy on German keyboards where ` is a dead key that makes the system wait for an e, or an a to receive that accent and certain OS don't come with a nodea
by usrusr 4y ago
Truly a joy on German keyboards where ` is a dead key that makes the system wait for an e, or an a to receive that accent and certain OS don't come with a nodeadkeys alternative keyboard map. I often find myself with the ` in the copy/paste buffer when worrying code-heavy markdown because pasting is so much easier...
- kps 4y agoCan't you just type [deadkey]+Space to get the ‘undead’ version? That works on Linux and MacOS and ChromeOS.
- keybored 4y agoProbably, but having to type six keys just to open a code block is probably painful.
- usrusr 4y agoSix keys, with a distracting lack of visual feedback on half of them...
- usrusr 4y agoSure, but it's super annoying when you write something in markdown knowing that being lazy with the proportional/monospace mix will noticeably harm understandability. Particularly when you suspect that readers will be close to failing to understand, doubly so when you suspect that this reader might be a future self. Is it worth the time writing? Only if I get the monospace right. Dead keys can make that writing situation a weirdly subtle kind of hell. So annoying in fact that I've just spent the last two hours with Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator (yeah, I'm still a Windows person) shifting the dead key version to hide behind alt-gr. Then I used it to mitigate some oddities on the dynabook keyboard (pipe and smaller/greater than weirdly moved to where the windows connect menu button usually resides) and continued duplicating some of the usual alt-gr suspects at locations inspired by their US KB position. Right now I'm an inappropriately happy person, let's see how I'll think about it in the future (getting too used to something non-standard cab be a terrible cost).