On 8 Apr 2002, Luis M wrote:

> I had to dig in to find out this info just yesterday.
> What I need to know now is, what's the 'Compose' key?
> The compose.inc.gz file points to 125 and shift altgr ... = ...
> 
> I cannot figure out where it is? I try all combinations of Apple plus
> shift, plus that.. what saint should one pray to so that the compose key
> works? I don't understand the cryptic way that the keymap file work, so
> excuse my ignorance.
> 

Apple=AltGr
Shift+Apple=Compose

> also, why is it that the compose vim file has a name:
> vim-compose.inc.gz.. or something like that, instead of the more common:
> compose.vim.gz, so that one can just add a line like KBCHARSET=vim to
> /etc/sysconfig/keyboard and fix /etc/init.d/keytable so that it includes
> 'vim', meaning, in the case statement *vim*) KBCHARSET=vim ... and later
> after that where it says: loadkeys it will load compose.vim.inc.gz .
> That would be great for us Vim users who already know our diagraphs :-)
> 

Don't know - isn't anything PPC specific.

Stew Benedict

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