[TxMt] Re: Bug in enclose selection with multi-key characters using US-International keyboard layout

[Allan Odgaard]

On 17 Sep 2014, at 13:11, Eduardo Francos wrote:

> When using the US-International keyboard layout, if you want to 
> enclose selected text with quotes, single quotes or back-quotes by 
> typing them, the originally selected text is deleted.

I have both the ISO and ANSI US/international keyboard, and I can type 
all of the following quotes without using dead keys: ‘…’, 
“…”, "…", '…', and `…`.

> A really insignificant bug, I know :p and I can certainly live with 
> it, so this is mostly for information. It's good to know someone knows 
> it's there :-)

I fear it would be rather complex to do a workaround for this because we 
would need to delay overtyping a selection when we detect the user 
starts a complex input sequence, and for most users I imagine this would 
be undesired (not seeing the selection immediately overtyped).

I think it’d be fair to say that characters used for auto-pairing have 
the same limitations as characters available for key equivalents, where 
your issue also exist, i.e. you can’t bind a menu item to characters 
that you cannot type with a single key sans modifiers.