>Unfortunately I am only able to type the US keyboard, so remapping the >keyboard might be a better solution than entering digraphs in the long >run but will not be painless.. And since I do not do this on a regular >basis, I am unsure whether it's really worth going to all the trouble.
Would it be impractical to map, eg, <^><e> to whatever the code is for 'ê', ie, use prefix notation of [^'`~,], etc., as a prefix for [aeioucnAEIOUCN] as needed? Wouldn't be *all* those combinations, but, eg, would only need <,><C> for Ç, <~><N> for Ñ (and their lowercase counterparts, natch), but the rest would just be whatever accented chars you normally use, for grave, acute, circumflex, etc. I'm not sure how a non-US keyboard does such things, so I can't suggest a more "transparent" way of doing it. One other possibility would be the way my phone does multiple chars per key, eg, you'd hit '1' to get the generic '.', then '*' would cycle through different punctuation, and so on, 'til it'd get back to '.' again. Maybe hitting alt-A would get you an 'a' and put you into a loop, then multiple hits of an F-key would cycle through the 3-4 other chars and then back. Any other key would "escape" the loop. Arrange them in the order you expect their occurrence, most commonly-used ones first. Eg, if you arrange them in the order acute/grave/circumflex/ring, simply hitting <M-a> would get you á. Hit F2, and it gets you à. Hit F2 again, circumflex. Again, ring. Again, acute. Lather, rinse, repeat. *Implementing* this would for now be beyond my ken, or my barbie, but I'm sure someone might have some ideas how to best do it. No?
