[Cuis-dev] How to enter the method return character?

Juan Vuletich juan at cuis.st
Thu Mar 23 08:59:46 PDT 2023


On 3/23/2023 7:18 AM, Gerald Klix via Cuis-dev wrote:
> On 3/8/23 10:04 PM, Juan Vuletich via Cuis-dev wrote:
>> On 3/8/2023 5:17 PM, Gerald Klix via Cuis-dev wrote:
>>> On 3/8/23 8:28 PM, Mariano Montone via Cuis-dev wrote:
>>>> El 8/3/23 a las 16:09, Juan Vuletich escribió:
>>>>> Hi Mariano,
>>>>>
>>>>> I wasn't aware of this, but the Linux VM reports [DeadKey] + 
>>>>> [Space] very differently from the Mac and Windows VMs. Earlier 
>>>>> today I pushed a fix. $^ and $" should be OK now with your LatAm 
>>>>> keyboard.
>>>> It works again. Thanks!
>>> Thanks, Actually that dead key behavior made me use US keyboard 
>>> layout instead of German one,
>>> when I turned back to Smalltalk about 4 your ago.
>>>
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>>
>>> Gerald
>>
>> I've been using the US International layout, with dead keys, for over 
>> 20 years. It is just that I use mostly Mac nowadays, so I wasn't 
>> aware of the problem. Besides, having now Unicode in Cuis makes 
>> handling this much nicer.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
> I just tested it with a German keyboard for Sun Microsystems. ^ is 
> still ad dead key on Linux and FreeBSD.
>
>
> HTH,
>
> Gerald

Yes, it is a dead key, same as in any other Linux app, like a text 
editor. So, [^] followed by [space] should generate '^' (return, 
possibly up arrow), and [^] followed by [a] should generate 'â'. The 
same as in a regular text editor.

Isn't that what you get?

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