Re: Inserting special characters..
Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org> writes:
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 09:33:18PM -0700, Leo Spalteholz wrote:
> > Does anyone know of a comparable way to insert
> > special characters in linux?
>
> Hit compose character[1], then the appropriate punctuation, then the
> letter you're applying it to.
>
> Ex.: ComposeCharacter-'-e will get you é.
>
>
> [1] On the console, this is control period. In X, it's whatever you
> bound it to. In emacs you can use either your console's compose
> character or C-x 8 <punctuation> <char>.
Thanks for the information, but in emacs how do you use the composed
character? I tried it out, but the character(s) just sit in the
compose buffer and I can't figure out any way to actually insert the
character into text.
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Carl Johnson carlj@peak.org
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