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Pablo Kvitca
Courses Plus Student 9,624 PointsCan't write the "~" caracter on the console
I have a Mac running OS X 10.8.2, and and Spanish keyboard configuration, meaning that I have the "Ñ" spanish caracter were the ~ should go, this is good because using alt+ñ the ~appears, though, on the console, both my local computers and the online Treehouse one, it just does nothing. I can't even copy the caracter from another file. Any fix for this that doesn't require changing my keyboard conf? I kinda use a lot the Ñ, as I live in an spanish speaking country.
9 Answers
James Barnett
39,199 PointsThere's a keymap for that ...
loadkey es
source: http://www.marcosorfila.com/site/change-keyboard-layout-in-a-linux-terminal/
Jim Hoskins
Treehouse Guest TeacherThanks James!
Please let us know if that works for you. It's not something I have experience, and whatever works for works for a local command line should also work using the treehouse command line. If something about the Treehouse command line is preventing the solution it is something I will need to look into ASAP.
Pablo Kvitca
Courses Plus Student 9,624 Pointsthat works, but its not what I need, actually its the other way around, I CAN write Ñ but not "~" on the terminal (or maybe it doesn't and I think it did). I was able to fix it with a hack I found on google on my local computer, but its an external app to the console that fixed it only for mac, still the online console doesn't write it. I need a way to be able to write the ~ on the online Treehouse console.
Jim Hoskins
Treehouse Guest TeacherFor the time being, to paste you should be able to right-click the Treehouse command line. (This is because ctrl/cmd+v is a key sequence that could be needed to be interpreted literally by the computer, not intercepted as a paste)
So by copying the ~ character and right clicking the window, it should be inserted. It's not ideal, and hopefully we can figure out a better way to do that, since it's an important key to use from the console.
Pablo Kvitca
Courses Plus Student 9,624 Pointsokay, now it works, just that the tilda doesn't take up space on the console, it is "invisible", but it is as it was there
Jim Hoskins
Treehouse Guest TeacherThat's unusual, it should be a visible character. Are you sure it's really there? What makes you think it is there but invisible. I ask because "cd ~" and "cd" are equivalent, and could lead to that confusion.
Ricardo Matias
4,637 PointsI have the same problem with a portuguese keyboard layout. As I press the tilda key, nothing happens. I guess i'll be using the copy/paste method.
Wilson Muñoz
16,913 PointsHey there i just want to say that i have the same problem, MAC, Spanish-ISO (keyboard with ñ/Ñ) and the tilde ~and the | character do not appear when i write it, its "invisible", soy you have to put it on the console then use a space
gab brunette
875 PointsI have the same problem with my french-canadien keyboard.