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Today I am reminded that the difference between lazy "a la" and correct "à la" is called a "grave accent," not the pinyin 4th tone. We are doing french-english, not chinese-latin characters! In that's "LATIN SMALL LETTER A GRAVE"

@worldsendless With digraph input (e.g., US intl. with dead keys) you can type it using: `a

@publicvoit Ah! Thanks for the tip! I realized I can do it in raw , without consulting the unicode table, with `set-input-method` `Tex` `` ` a `` For one-offs, though, the unicode table is simpler

@worldsendless Things like that should be defined on OS-level since you don´t want to have tool-specific solutions for that.

Same goes for the most general text snippets. I only have Emacs-only snippets in yankpad and the rest on OS-level so that I might use them in other tools as well.

@worldsendless I know that phrase but I also really doubt that the only application you're using on your computer is Emacs (although dominant, as it seems).

@publicvoit I use exwm, so it's all emacs with some Firefox, generally. Occasionally there's gimp or inkscape, but 95% of my work is in emacs and orgmode.

@worldsendless Mine as well. But I need my snippets in Firefox, terminal emulator/zsh, Evolution/mutt, ... as well.

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