Re: Shortcuts to symbols?

Thomas Zander <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.koffice
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Saturday 4. October 2008 04:54:43 Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> This is *much* faster than having to call up a GUI to select and insert
> characters. It would be a great feature if I could define an arbitrary
> keymap which is triggered by a single command, say F6. Then I could
> type "F6 p" to get π, "F6 ^ s" to get ŝ, and "F6 ^ C" to get Ĉ, or
> whatever key mapping I defined. Or I could insert arbitrary Unicode
> characters by typing a decimal or hex code: a leading zero would imply
> hexadecimal, no leading zero implies decimal.
>
> It would be an even better feature if that was usable across all of KDE,
> not just KOffice, but I realise this is the wrong list for that :)

X11 has had that feature for just about as long :)
Its called 'compose' and I can type a € by just typing [compose][e][=].
Check your keyboard layout configuration panel if you don't know which key 
represents compose on your keyboard (its right alt here)

Cheers!
-- 
Thomas Zander

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