Re: [PLUG] Entering extended characters in Linux

[Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com>]

A couple days ago, Art Alexion asked:
> [how do I best type non-ascii characters?]

Chiming in a bit late, this happens to me primarily in emacs
(composing mail), so I've found that emacs can subsume all instances
via copy and paste.  (This is clearly inadequate if you do this a lot
outside emacs.)  M-x iso-accents-mode in emacs 21, C-\ or M-x
toggle-input-method in emacs 22.

When I need a non-ascii character in the shell, command completion
almost always gets me there painlessly.

Ymmv.

-- 
 Jeff

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