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Seems very nice. It's a little odd that the examples include characters that are hard to type on most keyboards.

by tgb 10y ago

anotheryou 10y ago
You can also write ^2 instead of ² and "degrees". But yea, a bit weird as an example.
- dagw 10y ago
  "deg" and "rad" seems to work as well so you don't have to type "degrees" and "radians"
kps 10y ago
You just need a better layout. However, everything the examples inspired me to try fails. 2² works but 2⁴ fails. 30° works but 30°25′8″ fails. 10×3÷4 fails. ‘pi’ and ‘hbar’ are predefined but ‘π’ and ‘ℏ’ aren't.
- sharkdp 10y ago
  Author here, thank you for the feedback! I will try to add these. Tracked here: https://github.com/sharkdp/insect/issues/44 https://github.com/sharkdp/insect/issues/44
yorwba 10y ago
I have a German keyboard, which has keys for °,² and ³. I really liked that when I was typing my math homework in high school. It's not really ergonomic for programming though, what with {[]} not being easily reachable. So now I have my keyboard permanently set to US layout, frustrating anyone who expects the key labels to make sense.
Nadya 10y ago
I'd argue they can be easy to type on most keyboards - just that most people do not enable the functionality and it usually is not enabled-by-default. So not "hard" but "atypical". On Linux, set up a `Compose key`[0]. That makes `°` become `Compose o o`. If you're on Windows, a useful thing to do is enable the US-International keyboard so that you can more easily type characters with accents, so you can type Pokémon properly. US-International also respects the AltGR/Right alt to compose many characters [1]. For example, I can type ² by pressing AltGr+2 which really is quite easy. I can also type ° by pressing AltGr+Shift+; [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltGr_key https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltGr_key
sharkdp 10y ago
Thank you for the feedback! I have a german keyboard and haven't really considered this. I will try to improve the examples. Edit: should be fixed now.
- carreau 10y ago
  the way some other repl improve this is by allowing to tab complete form latex definition. For EG: \habar<tab>, \pi<tab> or 8^2<tab> will expand to what you expect. This also allows for combining like F\vec<tab> of \theta<tab>\dot<tab>

Seems very nice. It's a little odd that the examples include characters that are hard to type on most keyboards.

by tgb 10y ago

Seems very nice. It's a little odd that the examples include characters that are hard to type on most keyboards.

anotheryou 10y ago

You can also write ^2 instead of ² and "degrees". But yea, a bit weird as an example.

dagw 10y ago
"deg" and "rad" seems to work as well so you don't have to type "degrees" and "radians"

kps 10y ago

You just need a better layout. However, everything the examples inspired me to try fails. 2² works but 2⁴ fails. 30° works but 30°25′8″ fails. 10×3÷4 fails. ‘pi’ and ‘hbar’ are predefined but ‘π’ and ‘ℏ’ aren't.

sharkdp 10y ago
Author here, thank you for the feedback! I will try to add these. Tracked here: https://github.com/sharkdp/insect/issues/44 https://github.com/sharkdp/insect/issues/44

yorwba 10y ago

I have a German keyboard, which has keys for °,² and ³. I really liked that when I was typing my math homework in high school. It's not really ergonomic for programming though, what with {[]} not being easily reachable. So now I have my keyboard permanently set to US layout, frustrating anyone who expects the key labels to make sense.

Nadya 10y ago

I'd argue they can be easy to type on most keyboards - just that most people do not enable the functionality and it usually is not enabled-by-default. So not "hard" but "atypical". On Linux, set up a `Compose key`[0]. That makes `°` become `Compose o o`. If you're on Windows, a useful thing to do is enable the US-International keyboard so that you can more easily type characters with accents, so you can type Pokémon properly. US-International also respects the AltGR/Right alt to compose many characters [1]. For example, I can type ² by pressing AltGr+2 which really is quite easy. I can also type ° by pressing AltGr+Shift+; [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltGr_key https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltGr_key

sharkdp 10y ago

Thank you for the feedback! I have a german keyboard and haven't really considered this. I will try to improve the examples. Edit: should be fixed now.

carreau 10y ago
the way some other repl improve this is by allowing to tab complete form latex definition. For EG: \habar<tab>, \pi<tab> or 8^2<tab> will expand to what you expect. This also allows for combining like F\vec<tab> of \theta<tab>\dot<tab>