Ben Lutgens <blutgens at sistina.com> writes: > On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 10:00:41AM -0500, Chad Walstrom wrote: > >On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 09:17:55AM -0500, rpgoldman at real-time.com wrote: > >> Does anyone have any suggestions about how to find and use the compose > >> key? > > > >WTF is a compose key? Some shortcut to open your favorite editor??? > >Check your window manager keybindings. > > It's probably something to do with emacs. I noticed the original posters > X-Mailer was set to one of the emacs muas. Perhaps you need a special > GNUEmacs keyboard ;-) Nope, it's one common approach to entering international characters not on your particular keyboard. Which is why so few Americans even know it exists. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net / New TMDA anti-spam in test John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net Book log: http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/Ouroboros/booknotes/ New Dragaera mailing lists, see http://dragaera.info