Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 12:26:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Jean-Marc Zucconi <jmz@FreeBSD.org> To: lioux@uol.com.br Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Written accent characters? Message-ID: <200004101926.MAA16448@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20000410152111.A27157@Fedaykin.here> (lioux@uol.com.br) References: <20000410152111.A27157@Fedaykin.here>
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>>>>> lioux writes: > Hi, > I know I should know better. > However, how do I activate written accent characters? > I mean, I want to be able to type a then ~ and get ã but I am > getting a~ > How do I do that? > This must be a pretty naive question and I am sure overlooking > something but I did not find references anywhere. At least, I want to > get accent characters inside document editors such as lyx. > Using: yesterday's FBSD 4.0 stable, today's lyx and friday's XFree86-4 with KDE. here is how I do it: xmodmap -e "keycode 15 = 6 asciicircum dead_circumflex dead_caron" xmodmap -e "keycode 48 = apostrophe quotedbl dead_acute dead_doubleacute" xmodmap -e "keycode 49 = grave asciitilde dead_grave dead_breve" xmodmap -e "keycode 59 = comma less dead_cedilla dead_ogonek" xmodmap </usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/iso8859-1/Compose But this requires 3 keystrokes: <Compose>, a, ~ Within emacs I use a mode called electric-accents, which requires 2 keys only. Jean-Marc -- Jean-Marc Zucconi PGP Key: finger jmz@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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