Hello everyone,
Small puzzle here, though the thing has been troubling me for a really long time…
Ancient Greek has a lot of accents ("diacritics") and the best way to input them is by means of deadkeys. One of the more common ways to do so is to have a keyboard that assigns four of the possible combinations to the square and curly brackets (i.e. "[, ], {, }"). An example: if I type "[", then hit the key "E", I'll obtain the character "ἔ" (U+1F14, i.e. an epsilon that has a smooth and an acute accent); if I do likewise with the key "A", I'll get "ἄ" (U+1F04); etc.
This works in *every* application – excepting TextMate, where the deadkeys on "[" and "{" are being immediately rendered as "[]" and "{}", respectively; on the closing brackets, everything works fine. (I tried this on both TM 1.5 and 2.0 [9090].)
First thing I did was of course delete/rename the file "KeyBindings.dict" in the Contents folder of TextMate.app. (I have my own very extensive Keybindings.dict file in my user account.) Then I went hunting among the Bundles and deactivated everything that looked like it may pose problem - but to no avail. In TextMate 1.5, I have also deactivated the option called "Auto-pair characters". (I have autopairing my KeyBindings.dict.)
What could I do to prevent TextMate from anticipating the result of my deadkey?
I'd happily provide more details if necessary. One detail I may add perhaps: the problem doesn't arise in the Find Box (command+F).
All best, Andreas
* Skriv a reas Andreas U Schmidhauser (au@schmidhauser.us): |> |> Ancient Greek has a lot of accents ("diacritics") and the best way to input them is by means of deadkeys. One of the more common ways to do so is to have a keyboard that assigns four of the possible combinations to the square and curly brackets (i.e. "[, ], {, }"). An example: if I type "[", then hit the key "E", I'll obtain the character "ἔ" (U+1F14, i.e. an epsilon that has a smooth and an acute accent); if I do likewise with the key "A", I'll get "ἄ" (U+1F04); etc. |>
In case the following is helpful, since this is a matter of personal preference, here is how I enter ancient Greek: I use Greek polytonic, set in my Input Sources in Language and Text Preferences, and have no problem entering diacritics in TextMate. Forward slash + e in that keyboard gives me ἔ. I'm on TM 2, with OS 10.7.4. --Gildas
On 14/06/2012, at 07.07, Andreas U Schmidhauser wrote:
Ancient Greek has a lot of accents ("diacritics") and the best way to input them is by means of deadkeys. One of the more common ways to do so is to have a keyboard that assigns four of the possible combinations to the square and curly brackets (i.e. "[, ], {, }") […]
Is this a standard input method / keyboard?
If so, what’s the name / how to enable?
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Allan Odgaard -
Andreas U Schmidhauser -
Gildas Hamel