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Downloads:

514

Downloads of v 2.6:

473

Last Update:

03 Aug 2019

Package Maintainer(s):

Software Author(s):

  • Andrew Swaine

Tags:

keyferret.install unicode keyboard input

Keyferret

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2.6 | Updated: 03 Aug 2019

Downloads:

514

Downloads of v 2.6:

473

Maintainer(s):

Software Author(s):

  • Andrew Swaine

Keyferret 2.6

Legal Disclaimer: Neither this package nor Chocolatey Software, Inc. are affiliated with or endorsed by Andrew Swaine. The inclusion of Andrew Swaine trademark(s), if any, upon this webpage is solely to identify Andrew Swaine goods or services and not for commercial purposes.

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Deployment Method: Individual Install, Upgrade, & Uninstall

To install Keyferret, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

>

To upgrade Keyferret, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

>

To uninstall Keyferret, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

>

Deployment Method:

NOTE

This applies to both open source and commercial editions of Chocolatey.

1. Enter Your Internal Repository Url

(this should look similar to https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/)


2. Setup Your Environment

1. Ensure you are set for organizational deployment

Please see the organizational deployment guide

2. Get the package into your environment

  • Open Source or Commercial:
    • Proxy Repository - Create a proxy nuget repository on Nexus, Artifactory Pro, or a proxy Chocolatey repository on ProGet. Point your upstream to https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/. Packages cache on first access automatically. Make sure your choco clients are using your proxy repository as a source and NOT the default community repository. See source command for more information.
    • You can also just download the package and push it to a repository Download

3. Copy Your Script

choco upgrade keyferret -y --source="'INTERNAL REPO URL'" [other options]

See options you can pass to upgrade.

See best practices for scripting.

Add this to a PowerShell script or use a Batch script with tools and in places where you are calling directly to Chocolatey. If you are integrating, keep in mind enhanced exit codes.

If you do use a PowerShell script, use the following to ensure bad exit codes are shown as failures:


choco upgrade keyferret -y --source="'INTERNAL REPO URL'" 
$exitCode = $LASTEXITCODE

Write-Verbose "Exit code was $exitCode"
$validExitCodes = @(0, 1605, 1614, 1641, 3010)
if ($validExitCodes -contains $exitCode) {
  Exit 0
}

Exit $exitCode

- name: Install keyferret
  win_chocolatey:
    name: keyferret
    version: '2.6'
    source: INTERNAL REPO URL
    state: present

See docs at https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/win_chocolatey_module.html.


chocolatey_package 'keyferret' do
  action    :install
  source   'INTERNAL REPO URL'
  version  '2.6'
end

See docs at https://docs.chef.io/resource_chocolatey_package.html.


cChocoPackageInstaller keyferret
{
    Name     = "keyferret"
    Version  = "2.6"
    Source   = "INTERNAL REPO URL"
}

Requires cChoco DSC Resource. See docs at https://github.com/chocolatey/cChoco.


package { 'keyferret':
  ensure   => '2.6',
  provider => 'chocolatey',
  source   => 'INTERNAL REPO URL',
}

Requires Puppet Chocolatey Provider module. See docs at https://forge.puppet.com/puppetlabs/chocolatey.


4. If applicable - Chocolatey configuration/installation

See infrastructure management matrix for Chocolatey configuration elements and examples.

NOTE

This package is likely a meta/virtual (*) or an installer (*.install) or portable (*.portable) application package.

  • Meta/virtual (*) - has a dependency on the *.install or the *.portable package - it is provided for discoverability and for other packages to take a dependency on.
  • Portable (*.portable/*.commandline (deprecated naming convention)/*.tool (deprecated naming convention)) - usually zips or archives that require no administrative access to install.
  • Install (*.install/*.app (deprecated naming convention)) - uses native installers, usually requires administrative access to install.

Learn more about chocolatey's distinction of installed versus portable apps and/or learn about this kind of package.

Package Approved

This package was approved by moderator gep13 on 05 Aug 2019.

Description

Keyferret is a simple way to type characters that you don't normally find on your keyboard, in any Windows application, using the Right Alt (AltGr) key. For example:

  • à: Type a, then RAlt+`
  • œ: Type RAlt+oe
  • þ (thorn): Type RAlt+t
  • – (en dash) : Type RAlt+-
  • ½: Type RAlt+1/2
  • ²: Type 2, then RAlt++
  • ≠: Type =, then RAlt+/
  • 𝑥: Type x, then RAlt+\i
  • ⊈: Type RAlt+<s=/
  • ∰: Type RAlt+=SSSo

Features

  • It's free.
  • Works in any program (unless it's running under elevated security, such as an installer).
  • Interactive help: hold RAlt and it'll show you what you're inserting, or what to press to get related characters. No searching through keystroke tables, just follow the hints as to what to press next.
  • You can undo keypresses as you explore the characters available by pressing RAlt+<Backspace>.
  • Intuitively enter all characters required by any language using the Latin alphabet (used for most Western languages) all from a single layout.
  • Symbols for currencies, dashes, proper quotes, maths, arrows, subscripts/superscripts, ringed letters and numbers, and much more.
  • Implements quickly selectable alternate layouts for entering IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) characters, Greek, and Cyrillic text, including historical and rare characters.
  • The help includes information on each character from the official Unicode database, giving its name, grouping, and (where relevant) information about how the character should be used.
  • If you don't press RAlt, your keyboard works just as before – plays nicely with other programs.
  • Access the full power of Unicode combining characters, which enable diacritics to be placed on any character – particularly useful for medieval sequences such as oͤ.
  • Designed for US and UK keyboards (where the RAlt key can be safely remapped).
  • If you're up for it, you can edit the layout file to add other layouts, symbols and characters (probably necessary if you want to support non US/UK keyboards).
  • Takes advantage of the improved Unicode font support in Windows 10, supporting nearly every character Windows can display that is (according to Unicode) based on the Latin, Cyrillic and Greek alphabets.
  • Enables typing of all characters defined by MUFI (the Medieval Unicode Font Initiative) version 4.0 that are adopted by Unicode. In order to some of them (primarily combining forms of Latin scribal abbreviations) you will need to install the Junicode font.
  • Can be natively installed or run as a no-install utility (for example if you don't have administrator privileges).

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