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 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
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).
It *is* kind of unusual and unexpected, though.
Perhaps @obra or @polyglotte_inc have more thoughts?
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