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Accent marks Menu on Mac (Order)

When typing on a Mac if you need to enter characters with accent marks, the recommendation is to:


  1. In an app on your Mac, press and hold a key on the keyboard—for example, a—to display the accent menu.
  2. Select a character in the menu—for example, á type 2


However for ó you need to type 4 and 3 for í. Is it possible to rearrange the order of the Menu so that the typical accents á, é, í, ó, ú appear ALWAYS as the first option (hold letter + 1). Besides this issue I prefer the English layout of the Keyboard so It's not practical to change it as I need to type both in English and Spanish.


Seems it should be possible as it's not practical to remember multiple combinations

Posted on Mar 20, 2022 3:52 PM

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Posted on Mar 20, 2022 9:25 PM

Instead of using those slow popup menus for accents, you might want to use the old standard option key shortcuts:


https://sites.psu.edu/symbolcodes/mac/codemac/


It may be possible to customize the popup menu, see


https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/20505/how-to-add-characters-to-the-press-and-hold-character-picker-in-os-x-lion




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Mar 20, 2022 9:25 PM in response to eugenio267

Instead of using those slow popup menus for accents, you might want to use the old standard option key shortcuts:


https://sites.psu.edu/symbolcodes/mac/codemac/


It may be possible to customize the popup menu, see


https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/20505/how-to-add-characters-to-the-press-and-hold-character-picker-in-os-x-lion




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Accent marks Menu on Mac (Order)

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