On Wed, Sep 1, 2021, 14:19 André A. Gomes <andremegafone@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Now for the crucial point.  Do you go back forth the US and PT IM a lot?
> In other words, how often do you type "cora;ão"?


Yes, I switch back and forth very often. Typing my name requires me to and
typing i.e. ~a for common lisp also requires me to switch back. I code with
the us layout, since most programming languages are friendly to it. Or did
you mean try to type cedilla directly? That, almost never. I still have
that muscle memory of the traditional pt layout tucked away, but I can
access it on demand and only if strictly needed.

Or do you use the "portuguese-prefix exclusively inside of Emacs?
>

No, I have alternatives outside Emacs. It took me a long while, but I have
a autohotkey script for windows, a karabiner script for Mac os, and a
thingy I forgot the name of for Linux. All painstakingly modeled after
Emacs' portuguese-prefix, all decently close to it, but sometimes very
subtly annoyingly off.

João