ericrannaud

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   by ericrannaud 15y ago

   > Note that UTF-8 is quickly becoming the new "raw text file". The encoding of each symbol is very well defined and supported by programs already. It is actually better to have that exact definition than an ASCII word that may or may no
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   by ericrannaud 15y ago

   Well, the problem is that I don't see how it would be possible to have a keyboard like this that would be really fast to type with. Even a visual keyboard, as on a tablet, that could arguably display any set of symbols, would still not real
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   by ericrannaud 15y ago

   > Or use a language where '-' is allowed in identifiers. I have been a little obsessed with this question for a long time, and my interest in the LISP family of languages was in part driven by the use of '-'. This should have been a tri
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   by ericrannaud 15y ago

   Yeah. Press the key without modifier: get underscore '_'. Press the key with shift: get '-'. Return to default with: xmodmap -e 'keycode 20 = minus underscore minus underscore' (This is for a qwerty layout)
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   Swap '_' with '-' to write code faster(plus.google.com)

   2 points by ericrannaud 15y ago|9 comments