From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 15:48:45 -0500 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [9fans] plan 9 compose sequences under X Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9017ff60-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Sun Jan 2 15:42:39 EST 2011, rsc@swtch.com wrote: > On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Russ Cox 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