On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 07:30:19AM -0600, Thomas Chan wrote: > > > > > sci-fi ideas (not to be implemented anytime soon): > > > - timeout for key combination. For example, in certain layout, pressing cx > > > keys in succession with less then 1 second delay between c and > > > x would yield LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH CIRCUMFLEX. > > > Pressing them with more than 1 second delay would yield two > > > characters, c and x. > > > > I detest time-delay interfaces. Windows in "one-click" mode--hover the > > mouse to select a file; Mac "click and hold a link to bookmark"--it's > > extremely frustrating to break flow to suit an interface. For compose, > > it's even worse--I'm breaking my typing. > > This sounded more like an "sticky keys" Accessibility option for > typists who only have the use of one hand.
No, it was more like automatic compose, without the need to press compose first. Believe me, it is nice (I am using yudit a lot). In fact, traditional <Compose> behaves like a sticky key - it could have been more like shift, to be hold while typing compose sequence (and it would have the advantage that the system would know when the composed sequence ends) -- ----------------------------------------------------------- | Radovan Garabik http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/ | | __..--^^^--..__ garabik @ melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk | ----------------------------------------------------------- Antivirus alert: file .signature infected by signature virus. Hi! I'm a signature virus! Copy me into your signature file to help me spread! -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
