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Thank you! I usually use THIN SPACE on each side of my em dashes (Compose Space Minus in https://github.com/kragen/xcompose ), but on HN that gets bashed to a regular space.

comment by kragen · 2025-10-22 · in LLMs can get "brain rot"

There's a Compose key binding for it in https://github.com/kragen/xcompose/blob/master/dotXCompose . Usually a lowercase i is the small-signal current, but some ambiguity is probably unavoidable with short abbreviations.

comment by kragen · 2025-09-27 · in CT scans of 1k lithium-ion batteries show quality risks in inexpensive cells

…a file ~/.XCompose. A number of people have created files with extended compose sequences, of which https://github.com/kragen/xcompose is possibly the best-known. If you install or change ~/.XCompose, you must restart your session (log out…

comment by vincent-manis · 2025-09-23 · in Linux Compose Key Sequences (2007)

…in this should peruse and install < https://github.com/rrthomas/pointless-xcompose > or perhaps < https://github.com/kragen/xcompose >.

comment by bmn__ · 2025-09-23 · in Linux Compose Key Sequences (2007)

I have a Compose key binding in https://github.com/kragen/xcompose which maps Compose Space Minus to "—" with two thin spaces on each side of it, because I prefer the spaces. But HN rewrites the thin spaces to regular spaces, so on HN I…

comment by kragen · 2025-08-28 · in Researchers find evidence of ChatGPT buzzwords turning up in everyday speech

…this seems like a good start to build up custom mappings in case anyone gets interested in this, https://github.com/kragen/xcompose

comment by dietr1ch · 2024-10-29 · in Improving Xwayland window resizing

…ae, Æ with Compose AE, … with Compose .., — with Compose ---, – with Compose --. and so forth. https://github.com/kragen/xcompose offers an excellent XCompose file with over a thousand wonderful Compose mappings. Highly recommended!

comment by eadmund · 2024-10-09 · in Unicode shenanigans: Martine Ã©crit en UTF-8

…i have sequences for 'n’t ', ' — ' (with thin spaces), ' the ', ' The ', ' and ', ' I’m ', etc. see https://github.com/kragen/xcompose/blob/master/dotXCompose#L... but i agree that compose is not a great user experience

comment by kragen · 2024-08-07 · in Emotional about X11: I'm creating a pure X11 “emoji keyboard”

i do love me some xcompose ( https://github.com/kragen/xcompose ) but being able to see the possible options is pretty nice

comment by kragen · 2024-08-07 · in Emotional about X11: I'm creating a pure X11 “emoji keyboard”

…my algebraic formulas with the compose key and a custom compose map mostly written by mark shoulson https://github.com/kragen/xcompose for the above, after a false start picking random unicode characters, i realized that maybe i shouldn't…

comment by kragen · 2024-02-28 · in Varda Capsule Reentry – Five Minutes from LEO to Earth [video]

…way that is not general matrix multipication i typed special characters with the compose key; cf. https://github.com/kragen/xcompose not as easy as latex but more compatible

comment by kragen · 2023-07-09 · in Matrix multiplication using only addition

…such that (for example) the three-key sequence "SysRq . Z" is Ż. Here's the XCompose file I use: https://github.com/kragen/xcompose

comment by msla · 2022-12-25 · in Moving the Ctrl Key

http://canonical.org/~kragen/setting-up-keyboard maps my right Alt to Compose, and https://github.com/kragen/xcompose maps Compose ( 1 ) to ①, etc.

comment by kragen · 2022-06-28 · in Wear leveling in SSDs considered harmful

…your left Win key an «Option-modifier» and its right PrtSc counterpart an «Option-compose». [1]: https://github.com/kragen/xcompose Maybe one day I will buy another Mac... but shall we prefer comfort to freedom?

comment by maxxk · 2021-03-12 · in Kinto: Mac-style shortcut keys for Linux and Windows

https://github.com/kragen/XCompose for those who prefer a more methodical approach.

comment by bmn__ · 2021-03-11 · in I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service

…for unexpected problems arising from interactions between features. As far as the keyboard goes, https://GitHub.com/kragen/xcompose and http://canonical.org/~kragen/setting-up-keyboard are your friends.

comment by kragen · 2019-08-02 · in Why Generics?

…sequences to fill in the gaps You can do that with an .XCompose file in your home directory. See https://github.com/kragen/xcompose for more info.

comment by smacktoward · 2019-07-30 · in Chopping substrings

That's right. I'm sorry I didn't post the correct name in the first place; I don't have https://github.com/kragen/xcompose set up on my hand computer (because it doesn't run X).

comment by kragen · 2019-07-18 · in Soulver – Notepad, meet calculator

…looking for a good .XCompose file, this is one that someone on HN pointed me to some time ago: https://github.com/kragen/xcompose/blob/master/dotXCompose

comment by mistercow · 2013-12-27 · in A useful Caps Lock key

…Google '.xcompose github' (without quotes) and see what you come up with. I use this one, myself: https://github.com/kragen/xcompose but there are a lot of others.

comment by derleth · 2013-01-11 · in How to implement an algorithm from a scientific paper

…<Multi_key> <asterisk> <l> (actually all greek letters are on <Multi_key> <asterisk> [letter]). [1] https://github.com/kragen/xcompose/blob/master/dotXCompose

comment by p4bl0 · 2012-12-07 · in Typing the λ (lambda) character with the compose key on Xorg

…revs. (As mentioned in another comment, http://canonical.org/~kragen/setting-up-keyboard.html https://github.com/kragen/xcompose . The Chinese I copied and pasted from http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php?page=radicals though.)

comment by kragen · 2012-02-21 · in Valid JavaScript variable names

…and possibly install a bigger XCompose map so you can type Greek letters conveniently https://github.com/kragen/xcompose .

comment by kragen · 2012-02-21 · in Valid JavaScript variable names

I have compoſe-f-s as the key combination for long s in my .xcompoſe file: https://github.com/kragen/xcompose . You, too, can compoſe miſsives uſing our dear antiquated friend, ſhould you ſo deſire.

comment by kragen · 2011-10-07 · in Long S

I'm maintaining a larger supplementary compose file at http://github.com/kragen/xcompose now.

comment by kragen · 2009-11-27 · in Linux Compose Key