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KeyID
Find out what character something is, and what they typed to get it. | |
Is that a lowercase l, an uppercase I, or a Pipe sign? Is that an asterisk, or just a bullet that looks like an asterisk? Is that an en-dash or a bold hyphen? What font is that? I see that you've typed ¢. What keys did you press to do that?
Answer all these questions and more with KeyID, the
desktop accessory that makes computing a breeze.
KeyID runs in the task bar. Simply highlight any character you see on the screen and drag it onto the KeyID icon. A window opens giving you all the information you need:
¢
Font: Monotype Corsiva 12-pt
Bold
ALT-0-1-6-2
(Of course, this message comes out in a readable font where all the characters look different! So you can tell what it really is)
Then, instead of having to copy and paste that cents sign whenever you want one yourself, or search the Internet to find the list of codes, or use Word's stupid "Insert Symbol" interface, you now know the information for yourself.
In the Professional version, not only do you get the above data, but the computer also tells you which other fonts contain similar-looking characters.
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I|l - what's the problem again? |
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| <-pipe or redirector
Usually on the same key as the \ (backslash) |
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[DrCurry], do you have a script that changes your anno every 5 minutes, or are you doing it by hand? |
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Emacs does allow this type of things with C-x = command |
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I'm confused why you wouldn't be able to identify the font. You don't state what you're looking at, but I presume it must be a web site, since you're looking at highlight-able text which seems not to have originated on your machine. If you can highlight it, then you have the font already installed on your system. (There are rare exceptions to this.) |
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I like the idea, but I think it should be called "Char id". Why key? |
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I think it would be useful for all
those peopple who will be
changing editors in the next few
years. Sometimes you are editing
something from three people and
get something you might not want
to change. If you knew what it was.
. . . All those old MS Word docs or
whatever with weird formatting.
My vote is, it's cute. I don't keep a
shell open all the time, nor do I
wish to. You might have 500 fonts
installed like me. |
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Ah yes, the | symbol. One of those keys that went out of fashion with MS-DOS |
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I use it every (work) day. It's useful as a delimiter in files submitted to database upload scripts because it's unlikely to appear in the original data, unlike tab, comma, etc. |
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