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
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Cool, I’ll check it out later. Another issue will be ergonomics. Since digits are in top row, this won’t be as pleasant to use in the longer run.
I am actually curious why Apple went with 1, 2, 3… instead of using letters matching the already existing Alt dead key combinations. U for umlaut, tilde for grave etc.
I think partly because it's inspired by the iOS layout. But conceptually it makes sense: 'base character first, modifier later'. This makes a lot of sense across a lot of different languages. àáääæããå are all reachable on the Mac through: longpress "a" + number.
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