Xcompose Alternatives

xcompose reviews and mentions

• Orbital reentry from 17000mph looks like dropping out of hyperspace [video]
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Feb 2024

  most emoji are banned, as are nonstandard space symbols like thin space and some other things. emoticons (things like :-) and XD) are allowed. generally alphabetic characters and digits are allowed, and some other things, but i think unknown unicode is forbidden by default. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23440551 has some investigation and results which are probably still accurate

  i do most of my algebraic formulas with the compose key and a custom compose map mostly written by mark shoulson https://github.com/kragen/xcompose

  for the above i pasted part of the old permic table from wikipedia

      >>> s = '''𐍐‎    𐍑‎       𐍒‎       𐍓‎       𐍔‎       𐍕‎       𐍖‎       𐍗‎       𐍘‎       𐍙‎       𐍚‎       𐍛‎       𐍜‎       𐍝‎       𐍞‎       𐍟‎

• Ialthel translations
  1 project | /r/conlangs | 6 Jun 2023

  Also, since the default Compose file doesn't quite satisfy, see https://github.com/kragen/xcompose; they have defined a bunch of key sequences, which I use (with some extensions of my own — for example, I wanted a quick way to type a̋, and this wasn't built into the default sequences, since it uses a combining character).

• My setup for conlanging. Vim, XeLaTex and Zathura. What do you guys use?
  3 projects | /r/conlangs | 27 Mar 2023

  Well, I wasn't aware of this shortcut — that being said, it doesn't matter, because I'm on Linux and use the Compose key anyway (essentially, I type Left Alt and then a key sequence); and I've installed the extensions found at https://github.com/kragen/xcompose, which supplies many more combinations which the default XCompose doesn't contain.

• Moving the Ctrl Key
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Dec 2022

  Another possible solution is to define a compose key (I use SysRq) to type characters not on the keyboard, such that (for example) the three-key sequence "SysRq . Z" is Ż.

  Here's the XCompose file I use:

  https://github.com/kragen/xcompose

• What's your personal preference to write äöüß etc. in Emacs?
  3 projects | /r/emacs | 27 Jul 2022

  the way, the truth, and the light

• Wear leveling in SSDs considered harmful
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Jun 2022
• The power of Wincompose, or how I learnt to love typing IPA
  1 project | /r/conlangs | 15 Apr 2022

  For linux users there is the compose key which also allows for custom sequences.

• using `imap` to replace three periods with ellipsis digraph
  1 project | /r/vim | 16 Feb 2022

  Use .XCompose and enable ralt-dot-dot and a million (okay, not a million. 1066 in mine) unicode characters everywhere.

• Easy Entry of Math Symbols (Global Keybindings)
  2 projects | /r/emacs | 12 Aug 2021

  Or if you want some truly "global" keybindings, and much broader than just math symbols…

• A while ago I posted my Idea for a math keyboard. I got a ton of helpful advice so I am posting version two. Thanks so much please let me know what you guys think.
  3 projects | /r/math | 15 Apr 2021

  Have you ever heard of compose? That's also very helpful. If you use linux, take a look at https://wiki.portal.chalmers.se/agda/pmwiki.php?n=Main.XCompose and https://github.com/kragen/xcompose .

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