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Seems nice in theory, though I'm immediately turned off by having to reach for special characters not on my keyboard.
by cochne 5y ago
Seems nice in theory, though I'm immediately turned off by having to reach for special characters not on my keyboard.
- detritus 5y ago⍨
- mirekrusin 5y agoJulia solves this very gracefully with LaTeX-like input, ie. you type \lambda<TAB> which expands to λ
- Wezl 5y agoSome APL environments such as ngn/apl[0] allow tab completion like |o<tab> results in ⌽. This is probably available on tryapl.org too, but I can't test it when it's down :/. It may also be available in the full dyalog apl product and IDE. EDIT: see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27462828 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27462828 too [0]: https://github.com/abrudz/ngn-apl https://github.com/abrudz/ngn-apl
- augustk 5y agoTo avoid this you typically use a character keymap with APL characters accessible with AltGr and Shift+AltGr, for instance AltGr+i for iota and AltGr+r for rho etc. After a while you learn the keystrokes and if you need a less frequently used character you can click on it in the language bar.
- melling 5y agosomeday soon we’ll be able to use voice input to say these characters. Of course, I’ve been wrong for about a decade. but we have to be getting close
- leephillips 5y agoI’m glad I work at home.
- b2gills 5y agoYou can if you put in the work to set it up. There are two (nearly identical) talks by Emily Shea - Perl Out Loud https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz3JeYfBTcY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz3JeYfBTcY - Voice Driven Development: Who needs a keyboard anyway? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKuRkGkf5HU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKuRkGkf5HU