"Steven T. Hatton" <hattons@speakeasy.net> writes:
It would be nice to have a speciall key sequence to switch quickly between key mappings (I believe the KDE actually does support this.),
Yes. But I don't think that switching keyboard layouts all the time is a sensible solution if you need to input many different characters. You will never be able to type fast, because you can't get use to all keyboard layouts at the same time. I believe it is better for typing speed to learn touch typing for *one* keyboard layout and enter the other characters with some input method. For example, I always use the US keyboard layout and usually type German in XEmacs in iso-accents-mode, i.e. I type "o and XEmacs converts that to ö. Similar to dead keys. You can also use compose for that. For example, if the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose contains <Multi_key> <o> <colon> : "ö" odiaeresis and you have mapped some key to Multi_key, you can use that to input unusual characters. -- Mike Fabian <mfabian@suse.de> http://www.suse.de/~mfabian 睡眠不足はいい仕事の敵だ。