On Aug 5, 2012, at 7:34 PM, Tony Mechelynck wrote: > On my (Belgian) keyboard, I said, “ is AltGr+v and ” is AltGr+b. IOW, to get > “ I hold down AltGr (but not Shift) while pressing and releasing v, to get ” > I hold down AltGr (but not Shift) while pressing and releasing b. Your > keyboard may or may not have an AltGr key; on mine, it's the key immediately > to the right of the space bar, and AltGr is printed on it. I suppose that on > some other keyboards the key at the same position is named "the right Alt > key". I've been told (but I don't know for sure) that on keyboards without an > AltGr key you get the same effect by using both Ctrl and Alt modifiers > together. > > Just for fun (and for the RTFM effect), I looked up AltGr on Wikipedia, and > found it; maybe the page would interest you:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltGr > > The fact that there is no obvious relationship between “ and v, ” and b, > makes me believe that the same "special key combination" could quite possibly > give the same result in many other "national keyboards" (especially since V > and B are in the same locations on all three of AZERTY, QWERTZ and QWERTY > keyboard arrangements).
Thanks for the explanation, Tony. The wikipedia article says that on a mac---US keyboard I take it---the option key functions the way AltGr does. When I do Option+v and Option+b I get, respectively, √ and ∫. When I do Shift+Option+v and +b I get ◊ and ı. When I do Ctrl+Option+v and +b I get <Right> and ^B respectively. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA [email protected] "I have a mind-set that says bipartisanship ought to consist of the Democrats coming to the Republican point of view." - Richard Mourdock -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
