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[As an English typer] Where is this compose key on my keyboard? (This is a vaguely Socratic answer to the question of why the compose key is not more often use
by crabmusket 1y ago
[As an English typer] Where is this compose key on my keyboard?
(This is a vaguely Socratic answer to the question of why the compose key is not more often used.)
- layer8 1y agoIn Vim it's Ctrl+K. ;)
- WhyNotHugo 1y agoIt’s not mapped to any key by default. A common choice is the right alt key. I wrote a short guide about it last year: https://whynothugo.nl/journal/2024/07/12/typing-non-english-characters/ https://whynothugo.nl/journal/2024/07/12/typing-non-english-...
- capitainenemo 1y agoMy personal preference is the capslock key. I'm not using it for anything anyway
- fao_ 1y agoAs per the wiki article someone else listed — the compose key was available on keyboards back in the 1980s (notably it was invented only 5 years after the Space Cadet keyboard was invented!). Some DOS applications did have support for it. The reason it wasn't included is baffling, and it's especially baffling to me that other operating systems never adopted it, simply because compose a ' is VASTLY more user friendly to type than: alt-+ 1F600 which I have met some windows users who memorize that combo for things like the copyright symbol (which is simply:) compose o c