Re: Typing umlauts on an english keyboard

[Andrew Perrin <aperrin@email.unc.edu>]

I ran the code below, and verified it was there with xmodmap -pm and
xmodmap -pke.  In the bash shell, right Alt - " - A just returns to the
beginning of the line; in vi it's \xe4; in emacs it's nothing at all.  

However.... interestingly enough, in pico (the pine editor) it works
great! Can someone inform this poor ignorant user as to what the
differences might be?

Thanks.

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Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin@unc.edu - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
 Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
      269 Hamilton Hall, CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA


On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Arno wrote:

> 
> > What do people do for this case?
> 
> I'm using a US keyboard and I needed to have a "compose" key, thus I put
> this in .Xmodmap:
>   keycode 113 = Multi_key
>   clear mod3
>   add mod3 = Multi_key
> The keycode 113 was discovered using xev and it maps to the right alt
> key on my keyboard. To see which modifier is available, type xmodmap -pm
> at your prompt.
> Now, when I press the right Alt + " then a, I get ä.
> 
> 
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