“Curly quotes” are as simple as “< and “>. I hit the extra key without effort, and it’s so much nicer especially when programming to put a string inside straight quotes.
x = "some “quote” here is nice, isn’t it?"
But I recommend just taking 20 minutes to learn the defaults mostly by exploration because they’re so common sense. It’s like drawing with your keyboard.
Compose is so useful, that I even use it on Windows.
But back to *NIX, I recommend to read about .XCompose project, which extends the default Compose’s key combinations, and is also a good reference in the subject.
Of course, the Compose’s manpage is also a great reference on the matter.
Indeed. I wanted to find an easy way to type the wonderful —. I’m glad I stumbled upon this little tidbit of the internet which introduced me to .XCompose as a bonus. I also second Carpetsmoker’s comment in the original forum: looking into this has been on my TODO list for some time.
The compose key - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key - is so wonderful that it’s one of the only computer things I almost can’t do without.
“Curly quotes” are as simple as “< and “>. I hit the extra key without effort, and it’s so much nicer especially when programming to put a string inside straight quotes.
But I recommend just taking 20 minutes to learn the defaults mostly by exploration because they’re so common sense. It’s like drawing with your keyboard.
Compose is so useful, that I even use it on Windows.
But back to *NIX, I recommend to read about
.XComposeproject, which extends the default Compose’s key combinations, and is also a good reference in the subject.Of course, the Compose’s manpage is also a great reference on the matter.
Indeed. I wanted to find an easy way to type the wonderful —. I’m glad I stumbled upon this little tidbit of the internet which introduced me to .XCompose as a bonus. I also second Carpetsmoker’s comment in the original forum: looking into this has been on my TODO list for some time.
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