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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Alt - Characters Post 302282542 by Corona688 on Saturday 31st of January 2009 05:19:50 PM
Old 01-31-2009
Graphical applications using the GTK library have that feature. It's not a 'linux' feature per-se. If it works, use it, that's what it's there for, you'll have a hard time making it do what you want otherwise.

The alt-number trick is an ancient thing from the days when everyone used ASCII and QDOS.
 

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diakonos - a customizable, usable console-based text editor SYNOPSIS
diakonos [files] Basic Commands Following are some of the most common commands and their default key bindings. Not all commands are listed here. For a comprehensive list- ing, see the configuration file. Movement Arrow keys Cursor movement Home, End Move cursor to beginning or end of current line Page Up, Page Down Pitch buffer view by one screenful of text Alt-Up, Alt-Down Scroll up, down Editor Control Ctrl-Q Quit F1 List key bindings F12 Edit user's configuration file Alt-M Start/stop macro recording F4 Play macro F6 Repeat last command File/Buffer Control Ctrl-O Open a file Ctrl-S Save current buffer Alt-S Save current buffer to specific filename Ctrl-W Close current buffer Ctrl-N Create new empty buffer Alt-Shift-T Specify buffer content type Alt-1 to Alt-9 Switch among first 9 buffers Alt-minus, Alt-= Switch buffers Ctrl-Z Undo Ctrl-Y Redo Clipboard Ctrl-space Anchor selection (like emacs) Ctrl-C Copy selection to clipboard Ctrl-X Copy selection to clipboard and delete (i.e. cut) Ctrl-V Paste clipboard text Alt-U Unselect (stop selecting) Ctrl-K Cut current line (can collect multiple lines) Searching Ctrl-F Find Ctrl-Alt-F Find upwards F3 Find again Shift-F3 Find again upwards Ctrl-R Search and replace Ctrl-Alt-U Clear match highlight FURTHER INFORMATION
For more information on Diakonos see: http://purepistos.net/diakonos/ http://wiki.purepistos.net/doku.php?id=Diakonos:Getting-Started http://wiki.purepistos.net/doku.php?id=Diakonos:Tips-and-Tricks AUTHOR
Diakonos is by Pistos Christou This package is maintained by Ralph Amissah 0.8.12 2010-02-18 diakonos(1)
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