In acme (and plan 9 generally), there's a nice set of mnemonic
abbreviations for unicode characters.
It's great, and I miss it in other environments. Alt-<< and Alt->>
work really well for « and » for example.
Here's the full list:
https://github.com/9fans/plan9port/blob/master/lib/keyboard
On 7 September 2018 at 16:18, Michael Jones <michael.jo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I brought this up way back in the early days.
> There will be an old post.
> The fear is mental inertia and muscle memory -- a new-to-beginners character
> set would not "sell".
>
> An easy compromise is go vet: it can translate between '>=" to '≥' rather
> easily.
>
> On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 6:17 AM Larry Clapp <la...@theclapp.org> wrote:
>>
>> Need more shift keys!
>>
>> I'm pretty sure if I used them every day, I'd learn pretty quickly that «
>> & » are from opt-\ and shift-opt-\, and ‹ & › are from shift-opt-3 & 4.
>>
>> Windows users ... are on their own. Find a use for the
>> otherwise-poorly-used numeric keypad, maybe. (Sometimes I wish Macs could
>> tell the difference between 1 and keypad-1, etc, like Windows can. It'd
>> give me a whole new set of hotkeys. :)
>>
>> On a (slightly) more serious note -- Would multiple-punctuation-character
>> symbols work? {< and >}, or (< and >) ? Or <( and )> / <{ & }>. I kind
>> of like these last two. Nesting is ... iffy, I guess?
>>
>> <(<(stuff, <(stuff)>, stuff)>, stuff)>
>>
>> I'm sure there would be screams, and shouting about Perl, etc.
>>
>> — Larry
>> ^ an M-dash, haha. Shift-opt-minus. Easy-peasy.
>>
>> On Thursday, September 6, 2018 at 8:01:14 PM UTC-4, Axel Wagner wrote:
>>>
>>> And while we're at it, why "func", instead of the far simpler λ, or
>>> "type" instead of τ, or "include", instead of ι, "const" instead of κ and
>>> "war" instead of ω. We can do ρ instead of "range", φ instead of "for", ν is
>>> "new" and μ is "make", obviously. And while we're at it, let's also use ≥
>>> and ≤ and ≠. No * and /, just • and ÷. ¬, ∨, ∧ of course for booleans. ← and
>>> → for channel ops and short variable declaration with ≔.
>>>
>>> The answer is, that most people don't know how to enter any of these and
>>> the ones that do don't want to be bothered having to change their
>>> keyboard-mapping or hammering there num-block for every (or, really, any)
>>> line of code :)
>>>
>>> On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 1:34 AM Wojciech S. Czarnecki <oh...@fairbe.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I can not understand why, way in the XXIst century, in a language that
>>>> from
>>>> the beginning supports for unicode identifiers we are at ascii charset
>>>> overloading bikeshed. Why type `type` or (in other proposal $, or <> or
>>>> [] or
>>>> whatever<128) if I might press Super-T and get ʧ. Or press Super-G and
>>>> get ʭ.
>>>>
>>>> I hear that only gurus will write generic code. Might it be, but
>>>> thousands of
>>>> rookies should be able to read this generic code before they make their
>>>> first
>>>> commit.
>>>>
>>>> Gurus will know how to map their keyboards. Rookies on their (win)
>>>> machines
>>>> have circa 1000 glyphs in basic system fonts. (On any linux distro have
>>>> over
>>>> 3000).
>>>>
>>>> Why on earth keep on ascii?
>>>>
>>>> IPA: ʅ ʧ ʭ (0x285, 0x2a7, 0x2ad)
>>>> Latin-E: « » ¦
>>>> Latin-A: Ħ ŧ Ŧ Ɏ
>>>> Latin-B: ǁ ǂ
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Wojciech S. Czarnecki
>>>> << ^oo^ >> OHIR-RIPE
>>
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