XKB configuration with convienient compose sequences

[Doug Palmer]

Greetings,

I've just installed RH7.2 and decided to try using the full-on keyboard 
map with compose sequences for accented characters. Since the sequence for 
something like é is ' e I have to press ' ' to get a single quote. For 
someone who uses the shell alot, this is pretty onerous.

Ideally, what I'd like is a keyboard map which would allow something like 
Alt-' e to get é, so that I can use the single quote as itself.

I've had a look in the xkb configuration files, but they're like Klein 
bottles with vaulted ceilings constructed from smaller Klein bottles. So I 
was wondering if anyone knew of a suitable pre-existing configuration.

-- 
Doug Palmer     http://www.charvolant.org/~doug   doug at charvolant.org