dead key

Some special symbols and dead keys are also moved around.

Note that a lot of these symbols can also be entered using the dead keys.

About how the clunk of that dead key was driving me crazy.

The Option key can also provide access to dead key functionality.

A dead key serves to modify the appearance of the next character to be typed on the keyboard.

On some operating systems, an input method is also used to define the behaviour of the dead keys.

Symbols representing dead keys usually appear in red.

On the Macintosh, many keyboard layouts employ dead keys.

These kinds of keys are called dead keys.

Dead keys are mainly used to generate accents (or diacritics) on vowels.

In today's computer terminology, the dead keys have a new meaning: these are keys that do nothing unless another key is pressed as well.

But will such people be caught dead keying into 'the McDonald's of videotex'?

The concept of dead key, a key that modified the meaning of the next key press, was developed to overcome this problem.

Some keyboards with dead keys are:

The dead key feature was often implemented mechanically by having the typist press and hold the space bar while typing the characters to be superimposed.

In the U.S. layout, the following selection of dead keys appears:

Also dead keys for diacritics create a short-term mode, at least if they don't provide visual feedback that the next typed character will be modified.

(The shift key is a dead key, coming to capitalization life when a letter key is pressed.

To insert a tilde with the dead key, it is often necessary to simultaneously hold down the Alt Gr key.

"Dead keys" allow placement of a diacritic mark, such as an accent, on the following letter (e.g., the Compose key).

The dead key does not generate a (complete) character by itself but modifies the character generated by the key struck immediately after.

Before "quality-assurance purposes," or qualassurepurp, as we say at Naughty Systems, was the device known as the dead key.

On many keyboards it is primarily available through a dead key that makes it possible to produce a variety of precomposed characters with the diacritic.

"NumLock is a dead key as far as I am concerned," Dr. Magyar said.

I inveighed against this practice in the White House, labeling the transcripts "the Dead Key Scrolls," and it was curtailed for a while.