Suvayu Ali wrote: > On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 01:55:56PM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> I take it the official way to enter a euro symbol in vi/vim is AltGr+4. >> I find this works about 20% of the time. >> It usually works if it is the first character entered. >> But most of the time it does not work - I just get a "4". > I am not sure about VIm, but for most apps[1] I use a compose key. > > setxkbmap -option compose:lwin > > The above allows me to enter the € symbol by typing <Left Windows>e=. > Hope this helps. > > Footnotes: > > [1] Actually everything except Emacs. Emacs has many input methods of > it's own; I prefer a TeX-like input method. Thanks very much. That is certainly helpful, and I shall adopt your method if no-one suggests a way of entering shortcuts in System Settings, or somewhere like that. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org