Suvayu Ali wrote:
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 01:55:56PM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I take it the official way to enter a euro symbol in vi/vim is AltGr+4.
> I find this works about 20% of the time.
> It usually works if it is the first character entered.
> But most of the time it does not work - I just get a "4".
>
I am not sure about VIm, but for most apps[1] I use a compose key.
setxkbmap -option compose:lwin
The above allows me to enter the € symbol by typing <Left Windows>e=.
Hope this helps.
Footnotes:
[1] Actually everything except Emacs. Emacs has many input methods of
it's own; I prefer a TeX-like input method.
1. How would I have discovered that compose+e = would give a € symbol?
2. It works also in emacs