Compose key on macOS. Completely X Window-like.
Note this contains my modifications which you may need to modify. My settings are: CapsLock real key is Left Control and Right Command real key is Compose in the end.
Tested on 10.14.6 (Mojave) and Karabiner-Elements 12.6.0. Feel free to contact me if you have any issues.
- Install Karabiner-Elements from https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/
- Run
./install.sh(it saves one backup copy if overwriting) - Restart your user session (log out and in again).
If you want to hack more, have a look into misc directory.
It generally works, but in applications that eat the <F13> key
(like MacVim or iTerm) it does not work. If you have any ready
solutions, please let me know. <F13> key needs to be disabled
in the Terminal in order to make compose work there.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key
- http://superuser.com/questions/202695/real-compose-key-on-mac-os
- http://bob.cakebox.net/osxcompose.php
- http://uscustom.sourceforge.net/
- https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/xml.html.en#vkopenurldef
- http://lolengine.net/blog/2012/06/17/compose-key-on-os-x
- http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libX11/tree/nls/en_US.UTF-8/Compose.pre