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QuickAccent: use MS Word Style of accents #22673

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codejager opened this issue Dec 9, 2022 · 2 comments
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QuickAccent: use MS Word Style of accents #22673

codejager opened this issue Dec 9, 2022 · 2 comments
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Description of the new feature / enhancement

Using the US International keyboard layout never felt right. Having to type a space to get a plain quote mixed up my what-you-type-is-what-you-get with the other keys. I've just started using Quick Accent, which is almost an improvement. Holding the key, pressing a second key and then navigating through all available accented variant has the benefit of a single entry point to all variants, but a huge downside of navigating - ie, a lot of keystrokes - compared to the US International keyboard setting.
What I really would like is a Quick Accent mode that resembles MS Word's approach: pressing CTRL + special character first and the character to be accented next. This eliminates the cognitive load - or strain - of selecting an option that you know beforehand from the list and also reduces the amount of keystrokes.

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I would use this everyday the whole day long - writing emails, chatting in MS Teams, writing online documentation, etcetera.

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@codejager codejager added the Needs-Triage For issues raised to be triaged and prioritized by internal Microsoft teams label Dec 9, 2022
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pressing CTRL + special character first and the character to be accented next

The problem with that is that many of the accents are (usually) not to be found on a keyboard.

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