Just take a picture of the Wikipedia page and use OCR. No need for that copy and pasting nonsense.
I work in IT and I have coworkers that use caps lock to capitalize single letters, like the beginning of a sentence. It hurts a bit every time I see it.
Reminds me of the bash.org quote that went something like:
User1 joins channel
User1: HELLO EVERYONE!
Mod: Try hitting the caps lock key
User1: OMG THANK YOU THAT’S SO MUCH EASIER!!!
Mod: We need you to press the caps lock key again.
User1: OKAY I DID! JUST TO BE SURE, I PRESSED IT TWICE.
Heh, I remember reading that one on the irc quote database.
Yes, but you need to be wary of pasting the formatting.
So when you do this, instead of pasting with Control+V you will want to paste without formatting using the Control+Shift+V command.
So remember - if you want that capital ‘H’ without issues, use your Shift key when pasting what you copy from Wikipedia.
You can copy the H and paste it into the address bar and copy again to clear the formatting.
First you copy, then open word pad and paste it there. Then remember that word pad has text formatting and open excel and paste it there. Then remember excel also has text formatting and open calculator and paste it there. Then remember that calculator can only handle numbers (or a few letters if you are a hacker and put it in hex mode) and open Minesweeper and try to set a new personal best time. Don’t you just hate it when you have one mine left and two squares with equal chance of being the mine?
Eventually remember the pasting thing, act impressed the computer still remembers what you were trying to paste and just paste it into your notepad document and hope no one notices it’s different.
MS getting rid of word pad really messes up my usual work flow. Or would if I wasn’t switching to Linux instead of W11. I hear the word pads grow on trees there and that it comes with sudoku built right in, but they are fancy and drop the “ku” to save typing time.
sudo -ku if you feel like getting crazy
Well notepad still exists. Even though that’s not my normal text editor (I use Visual Studio Code) I use notepad for simple text manipulation frequently.
You kid, but as an Canadian Anglophone, this is what I do any time I have to send an email to someone with a French name with an accented character.
Yes, I know the special character menu is a thing, but I have shit to do.
I do this to type ™®©• on my computer
° ² ₂ ø are my common ones
Bookmarked.
Me too.
Try this instead if you have a number pad on your keyboard:
Hold alt and type 0233 and then release the alt key.
For my favourite, type : then hold alt and type 0254. 😛
Or better yet, start using the US-international keyboard layout. You press the accent you want (', `, ", ~, …) and the letter you want it on, and boom. Writing normal versions of those symbols requires a space after writing them, but that’s easy to get used to.
It’s pretty much the default setting in the Netherlands.
For most letters RightAlt-[The letter] will do it for me.
That sounds easier than remembering the arcane number associated with an accent.
I have not had a number pad on my keyboard for some time :( I remember this arcane magic
I believe you can do this with the on-screen keyboard! If you’re using Windows, I think that can be accessed with super+u (but I haven’t used Windows in a long time so I apologize if I misremembered or if this is no longer accurate).
I’ll give this a shot!
Most modern OSs have special bindings for special characters. On a Mac it’s like alt+ e e for é. I think it’s just alt + e on Linux.
We (Canadians) actually have two layouts to type French characters. The modern Canadian multilingual layout, and the traditional “French (Canada)” layout. As an older French speaking Canadian, I prefer the traditional layout but both work. You can even type English words with these.
(Shout out to !the_kids_in_the_hall@lemmy.ca , that community needs more love)
This but for em dashes
Alt+0150
That’s actually the alt code for an en dash. Em dash is Alt+0151!
You joke but Google is the easiest way to get the Euro symbol on a UK keyboard.
Isn’t that just AltGr+4? A lot of UK keyboards write € on the 4 keycap next to the $.
None of the ones I’ve used tbh. That might just be luck though.
Just looking at a random selection of two laptops and five keyboards here and they all have the € key marked. The only keyboard I can find that doesn’t is the Windows On-Screen Keyboard.
Although looking at laptops on shop websites, a lot of them have just 4 $ so maybe that is going out of fashion? Samsung yes, Asus no, Dell no, HP no.
Actually the Windows On-Screen Keyboard does show € but only after you press Alt-Gr…
tHats cool and all but How do I get tHe otHer letters uppercase too
Modifier key
Use auto hotkey and set up so that super + {letter} gives you the uppercase letter
I ThINK I MESSED IT UP
Honestly shit like that works really well when half of your notebook’s keyboard doesn’t work anymore. The on screen keyboard is limited and copy pasting letters from texts can be faster. Especially with special characters. Or when you just need an a or s, opening the on screen keyboard again and again vs copy pasting it once and using it as a source - the second one is faster.
I am very sad and desperate I can’t afford a new laptop
You could get an external keyboard to use with your laptop.
I literally have one at home and didn’t think of that. Thanks.
I do this when writing λ, Δ, Φ, etc. in a document on a computer I don’t own or when on my phone. It’s genuinely faster than scrolling through Word’s symbol list, for example.
You mean \lambda, \Delta and \Phi?
Not all of us are able to use superior tools like LaTeX for our documents, unfortunately
If you are using office, insert formula accepts latex code.
I used to do this, but then I changed to Hat. It’s increased my productivity significantly and saves me multiple hours each week.
do you mind sharing your secret for the capital i? you just used three of them in one post and i have no idea how you accomplished such a feat
Use an l
I go to Infrastructure. I hope to find a shorter word in the future but so far I’ve got nothing.
Presumably the original post was made facetiously, but since a lot of people are talking about special characters in the comments:
I can’t confirm anymore, but besides all the alt shortcuts in the comments, in Windows it used to be that you could open the Character Map from the Start menu, then either copy any character from a chart or select the character to see its alt code.
as someone who types special characters a lot, I can’t believe how people go about without the compose key
yo watch this
- – — ‽Found the neo user.
What is neo? Are you talking about neovim? I’ve never used it
Guess I lost that gamble.
This neo: https://neo-layout.org/Layouts/neo/
Interesting. I only type in English so I wouldn’t have a use for it. I just use Dvorak and remap Caps lock to Compose
I actually do this for complicated letter that I don’t know.
Like: ë, ñ, ũ, ü, etc
On Android ü just hard press the letter and they all pop up. ñot hárd
Yeah, I know. I was mostly talking on a computer.
Send yourself an email from your phone.
Draw it on a piece of paper and mail it to your computer.
Yeah, not really lol
There’s something a bit upsetting about how finding it online is faster and easier than using an application purpose-built for this purpose (Character Map)
That application was made before the turn of the fucking millennium and it has a bad UI design?
It’s even worse on mobile. I have no idea how to do this without changing my phone’s whole locale.
I’m not sure about your specific setup, but usually on mobiles you can hold your finger on a letter to see variants/accent marks.
Prêss æñd høld for Samsung and Google keyboards
I use SwiftKey, though.
Stop that. Data collection concerns.
Once, I had a friend who’s spacebar failed. I told her to copy-padre the space and go to Goodwill and buy a new keyboard.
That’s a copy, padre.
Autocorrupt.
