Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 21:27:49 +0000 From: Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk> To: Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Character shortcuts Message-ID: <20110312212749.GB38813@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimEHuVq_menbHAQkw09%2Bf7bAHMR=Xn-Y6gnzuFi@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTimEHuVq_menbHAQkw09%2Bf7bAHMR=Xn-Y6gnzuFi@mail.gmail.com>
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--61jdw2sOBCFtR2d/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 02:07:59PM -0600, Antonio Olivares wrote: > > Dear FreeBSD experts, >=20 > There has been something that I find hard to do, I would like to find > a CTRL + KEY combination, or ALT + KEY combination to input special > characters like (=F1) [ALT + 164 or ALT + 0241 in Mr. Gates OS]. >=20 > http://www.forlang.wsu.edu/help/keyboards.asp >=20 > accents other symbols like copyright, euro, etc. I would like to do > the same(have a special key combination) to get the characters in > FreeBSD too, but googling have not found something that works. I even > tried to run a litte program in the shell to generate the characters > to use for cutting + pasting to no avial. >=20 > But the characters after 127 are not printable :( using the pr-ascii scri= pt from > http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/wrapper.html >=20 > u + 00F1 is the =F1,but I don't know which key combination gives the > same results as above. A script/program(C,C++) that would generate > the characters would be nice, but if there is a key combination that > could be used to generate the special letters. >=20 > Thanks in Advance, >=20 > Antonio You can get those characters (digraphs) using vim. :help dig in (g)vim. E.g Ctl-k n ~ =F1 Ctl-k C o =A9 There's a note about using the Euro sign in the vim helpfile. (Depends on the encoding of the font you're using.) You could also make macros for these digraphs in vim. Regards, --=20 Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html --61jdw2sOBCFtR2d/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk175VQACgkQHduKvUAgeK5TXACdG38cBcu3O4h3GhwnGNMviC1R IlEAn1Wwm5T0dX7PvPTvMtjGwjM8oKhp =t/b5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --61jdw2sOBCFtR2d/--
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