Status

This repo is not maintained any more!

General

hcharselect lets you quickly copy UTF-8 characters to the clipboard for your pasting pleasure.

Usage

hcharselect currently requires kcharselect’s data file. You can get it somewhere at kde.org or by installing kcharselect on your system.

By default it tries to open /usr/share/apps/kcharselect/kcharselect-data. You can specify another file at the command line.

Invocation

The basic command line syntax is:

hcharselect [-d kcharselect-data-file]

Modus Operandi

Just type your search string in the entry box at the top and you will instantly get a list of matching UTF-8 characters in the list below. If the search string is shorter than 3 characters, you have to press Enter to explicitly start the search.

To select a character from this list, type Tab to switch to the list, navigate to the right row with j, k, Down-Arrow or Up-Arrow and hit Enter again.

This will make hcharselect go away and your character appear in the primary X-selection.

Keybindings

• Entry box:

  Enter

  Start search

  Tab

  Switch to list box

• List box:

  j/k

  Move one row down/up

  Down-/Up-Arrow

  Same as j/k

  Tab

  Switch to entry box

  Enter

  Copy character and exit

  Shift-Enter

  Copy character but don’t exit

Installation

Prerequisites

You will need GHC and cabal first. The other dependencies are listed in the hcharselect.cabal file and can be installed either with cabal or your distribution’s package manager.

HCharselect also needs the xclip program at runtime.

Building and Installing

Simply use the following commands:

runhaskell Setup.hs configure
runhaskell Setup.hs build
sudo runhaskell Setup.hs install

Type runhaskell Setup.hs configure --help to get possible compile-time configuration options.