The issue is posts like this one: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.apl/rKrVCusLkc4/MpZBZKtxMEUJ
This particular post might not be the the most enthusiastic of posts, but it would be nice to have built-in features that prevents those arguments from appearing in the first place. Regards, Elias On 24 October 2014 02:23, Chris Jones <cjns1...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > >
