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Option is used extensively for non-Ascii characters, a comprehensive list would be quite long. A few of the easier to remember: option + 0 for degrees º opti
by macintux 10mo ago
Option is used extensively for non-Ascii characters, a comprehensive list would be quite long.
A few of the easier to remember:
option + 0 for degrees º
option + u for to place an umlaut over the next typed character (when it's a valid combination, anyway) ëüä
option + c for cedilla ç
- shmerl 10mo agoInteresting. Kind of reinventing Compose key combos. I wonder why they didn't just reuse Compose ones from FreeBSD.
- macintux 10mo agoThis dates back to the beginning of the Mac, so it's almost 10 years older than FreeBSD. (I'm unfamiliar with other UNIX compose key tooling that may have predated it.)