Create shortcut to insert tilde or backticks

[Tramp]

Hello, I feel this is kind of a stupid question, but I'm stuck. I work using a laptop with an Italian keyboard layout and no keypad. The layout does not include the tilde or the backtick characters, and haven't found a decent workaround for this, so everytime I need to insert these character I have to switch to the US layout, type, and go back to the Italian layout, or copy/paste. Is there a way to assign these character to a shortcut like CTRL+ALT+^? Or any other solution to the problem? Thanks!

[fcas80]

Does this help:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31015152/how-to-type-tilde-in-r#:~:text=AltGr%20%2B%20^%20will%20give%20you%20a,were%20using%20in%20the%20comments.&text=You%20could%20use%20this%20variable%20when%20you%20need%20tilde%20in%20text.&text=Alternately%2C%20you%20could%20just%20type,copy%20and%20paste%20the%20character.

[Tramp]

Thank you, but the first solution in that post is relevant for Mac OS or Linux, and the second is a bit complicated and is not suitable for beginners. As I use R to teach statistics 101, I'd like something really easy and working on Windows (I personally don't like it, but that's what most of my students use).

[nirgrahamuk]

Maybe this.

SharpKeys 3.9

[Tramp]

Thanks, I'll give it a try... although it looks like it remaps a key to another key, so not having any key for tilde or backtick in my layout I am not sure it will work. If it does, it will permanently substitute the key, so the original character will be no more available.

[francisbarton]

If it's just RStudio you're concerned with, you can install the Remedy add-in, and then assign a shortcut to its "Insert backticks" function.
Or check out this already existing, customisable package: Add keybinding for %<>% magrittr pipe operator

Or write your own add-in, it can be quite simple like this (not tested):

#' Insert Backtick
#'
#' @importFrom rstudioapi insertText
#'
#' @return None
#'
insertBacktick <- function() {
  rstudioapi::insertText("`")
}

(you then also need a inst/rstudio/addins.dcf file - you have to make a simple package I think). Then assign a shortcut to that add-in function.

[Tramp]

That seems a viable option. I'll try it and let you know. Thanks!