I love the longpress feature for adding "Umlaute", but it still feels too slow. It would be amazing if in those cases the letter would work as a modifier key:
pressing u and 2 = ü
pressing a and 4 = ä
#milisecondsmatterpic.twitter.com/OVJ7foPaeZ
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I think the idea is that if you use them often, you’d switch to a keyboard that gives them faster: a German keyboard with dedicated Ä and Ü keys, US-International layout with a dead umlaut key, or even Alt-U followed by A or U or any keyboard.
But this mini-chording is an interesting idea. I have seen one keyboard do a version of this – BigKeys gave you F1 if you pressed F and 1 together (and so on).
Created an example for the possible behavior. It’s not different conceptually from the existing longpress. It just lets me execute on it faster. Give it a try when you’re on your laptop.https://twitter.com/nikolasklein/status/1016677335192473601?s=21 …
Agree that on my phone I’d switch keyboards if I type, but on my Mac I can’t switch. But there I’m switching most between languages.
Why can’t you switch?
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