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Idea: allow some weird Unicode operators like Julia does. Then it’ll be clear the weird operator is doing something weird and new. And this already works in oth

• spenczar5 3y ago
  Writing greek symbols is sufficiently annoying that I always kind of resent code that does this. It’s not just about the first time you are writing code, but also when you are reviewing it, or trying to share a snippet with a coworker, or lots more scenarios. Maybe it’s just me, but writing ‘z = x ∇ d’ is really tedious.
  • kps 3y ago
    ∇ is near-worst-case since it's not even Greek. I think domain-specific keyboard layouts are as much of a good idea as language-specific layouts, but they're a nuisance to install on *nix (trivial on OS X). Using .XCompose is the most practical *nix approach, in the absence of program-specific methods like Julia's tab-completable backslash names.
    • Conscat 3y ago
      I interpret this as meaning that ibus is difficult to set up. FWIW, Emacs and Kitty let you input unicode without it.
    • lvass 3y ago
      Just use C-x 8 in Emacs and you'll get any symbol by name, with autocomplete.
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