typing diacritics

[kareniel]

Find a solution that makes it quick and easy to type diacritics without changing keyboard layouts and without copy and pasting.

[kareniel]

• Mac OS X has a feature where it displays a list of possible accented characters when you hold a key for a few seconds. The problem is that it does not let you choose which characters are available. However the UX is very good.
• Software like PopCharX or Characters can come in handy. But they are not open source nor free software.

[kareniel]

• in electron, registering a global listener on key stroke in a background process will by default block that key stroke in the active application.
• we need to write a c++ node add-on to add this functionality to electron
• CGEventPostToPSN() on Mac OS
• PostMessage() on Windows

resources:

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10407769/directly-sending-keystrokes-to-another-process-via-hooking -https://github.com/EasyAsABC123/Keyboard#postmessage-and-sendmessage
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12805345/send-combination-of-keystrokes-to-background-window