On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 01:04:50AM EDT, David Lamkins wrote: > As much as I like gnu-apl-mode and aplwrap (I use both on a daily basis), I > felt like there ought to be a more lightweight approach to getting APL > characters into GNU APL. > > Today I wrote `akt`, the APL Keyboard Translator. > > https://github.com/TieDyedDevil/akt > > This small C program simply reads stdin and writes stdout. It takes > advantage of the fact that most modern terminal emulators will map the Alt > key to send an ESC prefix; therefore APL characters are seen by `akt` as a > two-character sequence. `akt` maps this sequence to the Unicode character > expected by GNU APL.
[...] Doesn't this amount to a GNU/APL-specific implementation of the standard X Compose mechanism? https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-apl/2014-05/msg00004.html CJ
