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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] plan 9 compose sequences under X
Date: Sun,  2 Jan 2011 15:48:45 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bb425c4dbfbf5add3ece1b5d39d484bb@brasstown.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinwiJKZU4sXm+BjDuNoMCKT2+YfaO_upne4ODk0@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun Jan  2 15:42:39 EST 2011, rsc@swtch.com wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:
> > Yes.  https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ComposeKey has some
> > information on the X11 Compose sequence mechanism.  I have
> > been meaning to prepare something in p9p to generate a config
> > that makes the X11 compose do exactly what p9p does (except
> > maybe the alt-X for spelling out Unicode by hex).  If you make
> > one, please post it.  mklatinkbd is probably a good start.
>
> Based on information from Anthony Martin, Tony Lainson, and
> Kris Maglione (thanks all!), I have added a -x flag to mklatinkbd,
> so that you can get the same compose sequences in GTK and QT
> programs that you can in Plan 9 programs.  Quoting the updated keyboard(7):

that's great!  i just wrote mklatinkbd as a shell script.  i didn't mean to
rewrite it.  for some reason the existance of mklatinkbd escaped me.
there's a neat little trick with sort one can use to avoid a trie.

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-02 20:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-02 20:41 Russ Cox
2011-01-02 20:48 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2011-01-03 17:13 ` [9fans] " pmarin

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