[Geany-devel] Doc errata?: Inserting Unicode characters.

Tony Rick tonyr42 at xxxxx
Sun Feb 21 22:09:46 UTC 2010


On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Tony Rick <tonyr42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>> Weird, never noticed that finishing the input with Space works as well.
>>> Anyway, the note about unbinding Ctrl-Shift-u in the preferences was
>>> added because in older versions we accidently used Ctrl-Shift-u as
>>> default for another keybinding. Maybe the note could be changed to
>>> reflect that.
>>> However, I don't get it to insert a line break even when using
>>> Enter/Return to finish the Unicode input.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Enrico, I think the problem is that the manual says let go ctrl-shift
>> before typing return, holding ctrl-shift and typing return inserts the
>> Unicode point without the return but any character, including return, typed
>> after releasing the ctrl-shift inserts the Unicode point and itself.  I
>> thought this was a feature :-D
>>
>> Cheers
>> Lex
>>
>
> I realized about holding ctrl-shift for the Enter/Return, and just figured
> that I mis-read the the manual (without actually checking), but Lex beat me
> to the punch. I guess this is a doc modification, too.  I'll do it, unless
> somebody else beat me to that, too.
>
> - tony
>
>

...and here's the patch for the manual (against revision 4688).

- tony
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