[TxMt] Another problem with spanish keyboard

Nicolas Weber nicolasweber at gmx.de
Mon Feb 12 11:03:27 UTC 2007


Hi,

> I am referring the last one.
>
> Opt-Tab (or a la Windows, Alt-Tab) always works since Tab is always  
> present in any keyboard directly.  But ] is hidden under Option in  
> the Spanish one.

this is a problem with most other European keyboard layouts as well.  
I'm using Canadian keyboard layout most of the time while I'm coding  
for this reason. The Canadian layout has [ and ] on the two keys to  
the left of the return key, and { and } are shift and the same keys.  
I need [, ], {, } a lot when coding, so using a Canadian layout is  
good for my productivity in any case (a US layout works equally well  
of course).

If you enable it in your keyboard settings, you can switch keyboard  
layouts with cmd-shift-space, so it's quite quick and easy to switch  
between the two most recently used layouts (Canadian and German in my  
case). Furthermore, you can switch keyboard layouts by clicking in  
the flag that is displayed in the upper right corner of your screen  
(again, if you enabled it).

HTH,
Nico

ps: If you're feeling adventurous, you can also add a dvorak layout  
to the list of your keyboard layouts ;-)



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