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Re: How to type ellipsis on Linux keyboard



Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> writes:
> Quoting Nikolaus Rath (2015-02-12 06:15:53)
>>> How dare you write ... instead of the proper … :-P
>>
>> I'm curious, how do you type that in conviently? I hope it's not 
>> copying and pasting from a template file, and remembering (and/or 
>> finding out) the X11 Compose sequence seems cumbersome too.
>
> Thanks for asking :-)
>
> I have¹ the following in my ~/.profile:
>
>   setxkbmap dk -option compose:menu
>
> With that I² can now type MENU+.+. to get that lovely³ ellipsis.
>

So it actually is XCompose :-). But I have to admit the key sequence
actually isn't that hard.

(I've had compose mapped on a key for quite some time now, but whenever
I need a unicode character it's somehow faster to c&p it from somewhere
than to find out how to compose it).


Best,
-Nikolaus

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