On 17.09.2008, at 19:36, Guido Governatori wrote:

Hi,

I have another problem with snippets.

I have defined the snippet

^{$1}$0

for inserting LaTeX superscripts. The snippet is bounded to the ^ key. However, with some keyboard (French and Italian and possibly more), ^ is an active key to insert accented letter. When the snippet is used with such keyboards after typing ^ one correctly have ^{} with the caret inside the curly brackets, but when one types, for example 2, the result is ^{^{}}.

Any way to prevent this (beside changing the trigger for the snippet)

As far as i know there is no way to prevent this. If a dead key is activated it waits as long as for an other key which fits with ^ like 'a' for â. My simple solution was to throw away my German keyboard. I'm using an US-keyboard with US or USext Input Method. To write accented characters is rather simple with both Input Methods.

An other option would be to use the Keyboard Layout Editor Ukelele: http://scripts.sil.org/ukelele Then you take your, I guess, Italian keyboard layout as default and change only the key binding for ^ to be a non-dead key. Save this as Italian (Guido) or whatever and install it. (see Ukelele's help)

--Hans