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+1. On German keyboards for example, the backtick is on a dead key, meaning that it is only printed if you press the spacebar afterwards. Thanks to dead keys, y
by currysausage 12y ago
+1. On German keyboards for example, the backtick is on a dead key, meaning that it is only printed if you press the spacebar afterwards. Thanks to dead keys, you can e.g. get "é" by typing <´> <e>. But it is a severe annoyance if you actually want to get "`" (<Shift>+<´>, <Space>).
- bartbes 12y agoI switched to using a compose key instead of dead keys, because I just end up writing much more code (and english) anyway, so it's more efficient than actually having dead keys in the end.
- levosmetalo 12y agoI'm glad I switched to Colemak way before having to type german umlauts, so I had to learn a few easy combos and keep the rest of the layout unchanged.
- LeonidasXIV 12y agoI always use the nodeadkeys variants and use compose key to get characters that I don't have on my keyboard, which is many more that the stupid deadkey allows for.