xtype

Prints weird unicode characters selected by alias.

xty script asks for the alias via dmenu and prints it into the current window. Requires: xtype in PATH, xdotool, dmenu.

List of characters and their aliases is hardcoded in src/dict.rs

Examples

$ xtype lambda
λ

$ xtype --list
 ¨  - uml umlaut
 ä  - auml aumlaut
 Ä  - Auml Aumlaut
 ö  - ouml oumlaut
 Ö  - Ouml Oumlaut
 ü  - uuml uumlaut
 Ü  - Uuml Uumlaut
 ÿ  - yuml yumlaut
 Ÿ  - Yuml Yumlaut
 ß  - eszett eszet ss
 ẞ  - Eszett Eszet SS
 €  - eur euro
…

Build

cargo build --release

Install

cp xty target/release/xtype /usr/local/bin/

Test

cargo test