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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/users/aral/statuses/113351694017857830">Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 00:07:05 JST</a><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral" title="aral@mastodon.ar.al"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/theme/gnusocialjp/default-avatar-stream.png" width="48" height="48" alt="Aral Balkan" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Aral Balkan</a><div><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/113351583514063643" rel="in-reply-to">in reply to</a></div></section><article><p>And since we’re on the subject of typography and the Mac, one of the things you might miss from Linux (say, hypothetically, if you decided you’d had enough and were going back from Linux to  macOS after six years), might be the all-powerful Compose Key*.</p><p>Well, fear not, because you can emulate it as Howard Rogers has basically recreated it using DefaultKeyBinding.dict:</p><p><a href="https://absolutelybaching.com/a-compose-key-for-the-mac/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://absolutelybaching.com/a-compose-key-for-the-mac/</a></p><p>(In Vial, I made my Caps Lock produce a § and mapped it to that.)</p><p>* <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/3864771#notice-7556522">In conversation</a><time datetime="2024-10-23T00:07:05+09:00" title="Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 00:07:05 JST">about 3 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/113351694017857830" rel="external" title="Sent from mastodon.ar.al via ActivityPub">mastodon.ar.al</a></span></span><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/113351694017857830">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/3340313">Screenshot of terminal (WezTerm) running on a Mac with a light system theme:  ~/Projects/kitten/app  main                                                                                                                                                                                  ⬢ 20.11.1
❯ head ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict
{
    "§" = {
        "\U0020" = {
            "\U0020" = ("insertText:", "\U00A0"); /* Compose, SPACE, SPACE: NO-BREAK SPACE */
            "\U0027" = ("insertText:", "\U0027"); /* Compose, SPACE, APOSTROPHE: APOSTROPHE */
            "\U0028" = ("insertText:", "\U02D8"); /* Compose, SPACE, LEFT PARENTHESIS: BREVE */
            "\U002C" = ("insertText:", "\U00B8"); /* Compose, SPACE, COMMA: CEDILLA */
            "\U002D" = ("insertText:", "\U007E"); /* Compose, SPACE, HYPHEN-MINUS: TILDE */
            "\U002E" = ("insertText:", "\U2008"); /* Compose, SPACE, FULL STOP: PUNCTUATION SPACE */
            "\U003C" = ("insertText:", "\U02C7"); /* Compose, SPACE, LESS-THAN SIGN: CARON */</a></label><br><a href="https://s3-eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/mastodon-aral/media_attachments/files/113/351/689/939/739/918/original/3f7b1d01ce39054d.png" rel="external">https://s3-eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/mastodon-aral/media_attachments/files/113/351/689/939/739/918/original/3f7b1d01ce39054d.png</a></li><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: upload.wikimedia.org</div><h5><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key">Compose key</a></h5><div></div></header><div>A compose key (sometimes called multi key) is a key on a computer keyboard that indicates that the following (usually 2 or more) keystrokes trigger the insertion of an alternate character, typically a precomposed character or a symbol.
For instance, typing Compose followed by ~ and then n will insert ñ.
Compose keys are most popular on Linux and other systems using the X Window System, but software exists to implement them on Windows and macOS.History
The Compose Character key was introduced by engineers at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) on the LK201 keyboard, available since 1983 with the VT220 terminal. The keyboard included an LED indicating that a Compose sequence is on-going. While the LK201 introduced the group of command keys between the alphanumerical block and the numerical keypad, and the "inverted T" arrangement of arrow keys...</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 00:07:05 JST Aral Balkan
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And since we’re on the subject of typography and the Mac, one of the things you might miss from Linux (say, hypothetically, if you decided you’d had enough and were going back from Linux to macOS after six years), might be the all-powerful Compose Key*.
Well, fear not, because you can emulate it as Howard Rogers has basically recreated it using DefaultKeyBinding.dict:
https://absolutelybaching.com/a-compose-key-for-the-mac/
(In Vial, I made my Caps Lock produce a § and mapped it to that.)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key
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1. Screenshot of terminal (WezTerm) running on a Mac with a light system theme:   ~/Projects/kitten/app  main ⬢ 20.11.1 ❯ head ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict { "§" = { "\U0020" = { "\U0020" = ("insertText:", "\U00A0"); /* Compose, SPACE, SPACE: NO-BREAK SPACE */ "\U0027" = ("insertText:", "\U0027"); /* Compose, SPACE, APOSTROPHE: APOSTROPHE */ "\U0028" = ("insertText:", "\U02D8"); /* Compose, SPACE, LEFT PARENTHESIS: BREVE */ "\U002C" = ("insertText:", "\U00B8"); /* Compose, SPACE, COMMA: CEDILLA */ "\U002D" = ("insertText:", "\U007E"); /* Compose, SPACE, HYPHEN-MINUS: TILDE */ "\U002E" = ("insertText:", "\U2008"); /* Compose, SPACE, FULL STOP: PUNCTUATION SPACE */ "\U003C" = ("insertText:", "\U02C7"); /* Compose, SPACE, LESS-THAN SIGN: CARON */
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  A compose key (sometimes called multi key) is a key on a computer keyboard that indicates that the following (usually 2 or more) keystrokes trigger the insertion of an alternate character, typically a precomposed character or a symbol. For instance, typing Compose followed by ~ and then n will insert ñ. Compose keys are most popular on Linux and other systems using the X Window System, but software exists to implement them on Windows and macOS. History The Compose Character key was introduced by engineers at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) on the LK201 keyboard, available since 1983 with the VT220 terminal. The keyboard included an LED indicating that a Compose sequence is on-going. While the LK201 introduced the group of command keys between the alphanumerical block and the numerical keypad, and the "inverted T" arrangement of arrow keys...

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