Pedro Kröger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sorry for the off-topic, but I'm curious about this. Since a few > people here speak languages other than English (french, German, Dutch, > Portuguese, etc) I was wandering how you configure your keyboard for > *programming*. > > The use of dead keys is very comfortable to edit texts in languages > with accents (like french) but I find a little bit irritating to use > it while programming because I always have to hit a few more keys. For > instance, to type an expression in lisp that have a quote I have to > type <quote> <space> foo to get 'foo instead of <quote> foo. that's > even more annoying to type commands like C-c ` in emacs.
I'm using a mac French keyboard, (with éàùçè direct keys, and ^¨` dead keys for other accents). Parentheses are accessible without shifting, which is nice for lisp. quote is not a dead key (also nice). I've made caps lock an alternate ctrl key to avoid pain on the left little finger. It's no big deal to have backquote a deadkey because when it is followed by a parenthese, both characters are then inserted: `(. Tilde ~ is more a pain because it has to be followed by a space hit (not good in format clauses "~a" for instance; ALT-n SPACE produces the tilde). nicolas _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
