Re: Keymaps

[Tobias Wolter <tobias.wolter@epost.de>]

On 2001-12-04T 2:25:56 +0000, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote:

> alt+(any letter) and get a character with a diacritical marking.  I
> remember this being the default behaviour a while back, but I really
> miss being able to spell things with the proper diacritical marks when
> appropriate...

What works for me is using 'xev' to locate one of the unused keys (->
Winblows keyboard keys :)) and assign the 'SunCompose' key to it.

The right application key (that thing with the context menu) has got
keycode 116 with me, so I enter following line:

xmodmap -e 'keycode 116 = SunCompose'

Then, voila, I have a compose key. You can use two characters in
combination to create a third one. For example (German Umlaute):
"u would give an ue (I sorta have a problem here .. emacs thinks it
needs to execute shell command on region when I enter the ue..)

"o would give an oe

Or, french stuff:

'A = A acute
`E = E grave

etc.

I found a full listing of key sequences at:
 http://vt100.net/docs/vt420-uu/chapter6.html#T6-2

-towo, HTH