[9fans] input pipe and drawterm

[9fans] input pipe and drawterm

[Matthias Teege]

Moin,

I'm "drawterming" successfully to my office
network via (slow) DSL line. It works very
nice. There is only one problem at the moment.
I can't input the pipe type on the german
keyboard on my notebook.

The pipe is on the third layer and I normaly
use "AltGr <" to input the pipe. Is there any
way to get the pipe?

Many thanks
Matthias

Re: [9fans] input pipe and drawterm

[Bruce Ellis]

stop-gap measure if you are having unicode/keyboard
battles is to open a file has the rune in it and snarf/paste.
there's a lot in /lib/keyboard.

brucee
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthias Teege" <matthias@mteege.de>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 9:36 AM
Subject: [9fans] input pipe and drawterm


> Moin,
>
> I'm "drawterming" successfully to my office
> network via (slow) DSL line. It works very
> nice. There is only one problem at the moment.
> I can't input the pipe type on the german
> keyboard on my notebook.
>
> The pipe is on the third layer and I normaly
> use "AltGr <" to input the pipe. Is there any
> way to get the pipe?
>
> Many thanks
> Matthias

Re: [9fans] input pipe and drawterm

[Bruce Ellis]

silly me, you can just use the unicode command.
type in a hexcode like:

     unicode 007c

snarf, and paste the output...

brucee
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthias Teege" <matthias@mteege.de>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 9:36 AM
Subject: [9fans] input pipe and drawterm


> Moin,
>
> I'm "drawterming" successfully to my office
> network via (slow) DSL line. It works very
> nice. There is only one problem at the moment.
> I can't input the pipe type on the german
> keyboard on my notebook.
>
> The pipe is on the third layer and I normaly
> use "AltGr <" to input the pipe. Is there any
> way to get the pipe?
>
> Many thanks
> Matthias
>

Re: [9fans] input pipe and drawterm

[Geoff Collyer]

or just type the hex directly: alt-X-hex-hex-hex-hex.
in this case: alt X007c.  that's a capital X and it matters.

Re: [9fans] input pipe and drawterm

[Matthias Teege]

On Tue Feb 10 10:05:32 GMT 2004, brucee@chunder.com wrote:
> silly me, you can just use the unicode command.

The first solution works perfect. :-) But the
second one is more elegant.

Thanks
Matthias

Re: [9fans] input pipe and drawterm

[boyd, rounin]

> use "AltGr <" to input the pipe. Is there any
> way to get the pipe?

i have to type AltGr-6 and for some chars it goes
into 'utf collection mode'.  hitting space backspace
usually sorts that out, after typing:

    AltGR-<something>

i'm pretty sure AltGr maps onto 'compose'.

Re: [9fans] input pipe and drawterm

[boyd, rounin]

> stop-gap measure if you are having unicode/keyboard
> battles is to open a file has the rune in it and snarf/paste.
> there's a lot in /lib/keyboard.

yeah, i had a script [samit] which had all sorts of difficult
to type chars and commands that B'd itself into sam.

i'd also ifdef'd out the utf code for running on lunix so
iso latin 1 chars would work right.

Re: [9fans] input pipe and drawterm

[plan9]

Hiya,

create yourself a file with the characters you need.  For example, I
have a UK keyboard at work and write German emails, so I did a 
'unicode 00-ff' (you'll find '|' at 007c) and then cut'n'pasted the
letters I need most often ('Ä' 'ä' 'Ö' 'ö' 'Ü' 'ü' 'ß' '£') into my
guide in acme.  Not exactly ideal if you're a fast typer and get
frustrated by mice (not me, btw), but perfectly servicable.

Robby