Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <chrome at real-time.com> writes: > > WTF is a compose key? > > look at an honest-to-God DEC VT dumbterm, and you'll see a 'compose' key on > it. other dumbterms probably have them as well. > As Mr. Goldman implies, it's used for composing foreign characters like the > Spanish characters that have the ~ over them, and such like. Well, maybe on the new enough ones. Not on any of the ones I remember working with, and not on the two in the next room. (Did it come in with the VT220 series, in which case I actually did have one on my desk in Marlboro briefly, or was it later, in which case I really never did see it?) -- 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