On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 10:52:12AM -0500, dman wrote: | On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 01:38:06PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: | | We found this this morning: | | | | In bash type Ctrl-v Ctrl-. "e and then get ë. | | Do you have bash (readline) in "vi" mode or "emacs" mode? In vim I | can type ^V to escape the next character (allows entering in control | characters directly) or to type "x<1 byte hex code>" or | "u<2 byte hex unicode code>" and enter in any character. | | | No locale and language settings seems to make any difference. | | The ^V^."e trick doesn't work for me.
(bash and vim on solaris) Back on the debian console with dead keys, the ^V^."e<space> gives the umlaut (as does "e). -D -- Microsoft: "Windows NT 4.0 now has the same user-interface as Windows 95" Windows 95: "Press CTRL-ALT-DEL to reboot" Windows NT 4.0: "Press CTRL-ALT-DEL to login"