On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 08:40:08AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:15:43 -0800, Gary Kline <kl...@thought.org> wrote:
> > it's time to come clean an admit that i have never taken
> > advantage of the option that lets you press [???], then press
> > other keys in order so the result is like pressing multiple
> > keys at once.
>
> After reading this paragraph, the whole thing sounds VERY
> familiar to me. In your mind, open a picture of a Sun Type 5
> or 6 keyboard - or use google :-) - and look what's the key
> on the lower right of the alphanumeric section. It is - oh
> big surprise - the Compose key that acts quite the same way
> that you described. It enables the user to compose a new
> character by pressing its components one after another.
>
> I'm almost sure that this functionality can be forced upon
> other modifier keys, such as "press shift - now "shift mode"
> is on for the next character, press '1', and you get '!';
> now "shift mode" is off again". The same could work for the
> other modifiers (ctrl, meta, alt, alt-gr).
>
> In fact, Meta just works this way, e. g. in the Midnight
> Commander. For Meta-c, you press Esc, then c. The PC keyboard
> usually does not come with a Meta key, so this solution is
> very welcome. It can even emulate PF keys when the terminal
> emulation doesn't support them, e. g. PF2 = Esc, 2.
>
>
>
> > everybody on this
> > list has learned that forethought and planning beat typing
> > speed!
>
> You are so right with that statement. Today's IT education,
> be it professional schools or universities, seem to spit
> out "programmers" that have coded some stuff in ten different
> languages, but are completely unable to program with just
> their brain, and maybe a pencil and some paper; this is
> "old school", but produced all the programs the Internet
> runs on.
>
> And: No, "trial & error" is not a programming concept. :-)
>
>
>
> > i'm ready to set up the multi-key stuff that's
> > built in to at least KDE.
> >
> > appreciate a pointer to a url or tutorial on this... and/or
> > to know what this feature is even called. it's time to get
> > practical. i am stubborn, just not particular stupid. maybe
> > "slow" :_)
>
> Sadly, I've abandoned KDE many years ago, so I can't help
> you with that.
>
Another list member pointed me to the Control Center where
they sticky-keys setup stuff is in KDE. Along with a couple
examples. (I'll say for the 60 000th time that a good example
is worth a thousand words:)
I don't know how things are with the current IT grads, but
when I did my first two quarters in BASIC at night school, I
spent literally hours with textbook, paper and pencil walking
thru sample code until it sunk in. That gave me some ideas
when I took my first quarter of FORTRAN IV.
cheers!
gary
>
>
>
> --
> Polytropon
> Magdeburg, Germany
> Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
> Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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