Posted by Els on 10/06/94 11:42

Dylan Parry wrote:

> Pondering the eternal question of "Hobnobs or Rich Tea?", Els finally
> proclaimed:
>
> [é]
>> I use alt-130 in mail and Usenet
>
> It's easier than that. In most Windows applications, for letters with
> acute accents, you can just press "Ctrl+Alt+letter". Alternatively, you
> can press "Alt Gr+letter" for the same effect.
>
> For example, "Ctrl+Alt+E" gives é, whereas "Shift+Ctrl+Alt+E" gives É.
> It's the same for any of the vowel characters.

Well.. in this application here, Dialog, I press Ctrl + Alt + e and
nothing happens. Besides that, I don't know how you type, but for me,
pressing the left-Alt with my left hand and typing any combination of
3 digits (the ones I use are all in my head and have been since I was
17 or so) with my right hand, is far easier than trying to press ctrl
and alt and the letter e or a all with my left hand. I'd actually have
to look at my keyboard to do it :\

> I'm not sure if there are any shortcuts like that for grave accents or
> for umlauts etc.

See? That's one more reason why alt-anything is easier: é í á ë è ç ã
ñ ê ... all without having to think about different keys for different
shortcuts. Just Alt and all digits for which I don't have to move my
hand :P

> I'm also not sure if this shortcut works in any other
> OS's, or indeed whether it always works in Windows! It's always worked
> for me, so I have no reason to think otherwise for Windows.

Well, it doesn't work in my Dialog on WinXP :-)

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