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

Juan Vuletich juan at cuis.st
Thu Mar 23 09:22:41 PDT 2023


On 3/23/2023 1:16 PM, Gerald Klix via Cuis-dev wrote:
> On 3/23/23 4:59 PM, Juan Vuletich wrote:
>> 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?
>>
> Yes, of course. It is rather annoying.

We're just following the OS convention... If that's annoying, maybe 
there's some way to get different behavior in the OS...

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