Just now, Robby Findler wrote: > > But my emacs nowadays works fine with unicode (and I long ago gave > up on trying to maintain an .emacs file so I just get the defaults).
Heh -- yes, it handles unicode fine, but the real problem is typing it. There are input modes that allow you to type greek or sgml or whatever, but they're inconvenient since you need to switch the input, type the letter you want, then switch back. (And each switch is some obscure three-part chord, IIRC.) I started with an attempt to mimic drracket's M-\ feature, and ended up with a neat solution: I have a key that switches to my input mode which works "temporarily" only for one character, and then you're back to the input you've used. So, for example, to type a λ in drr you'd use "\LAMBDA<M-\>", and the equivalent with my thing is "<M-RET>LAMBDA". The nice thing about it is that I can define multiple names for each thing, for example, in addition to "rarr" I also have the much-easier-to-remember "->" (or a more extreme case: "vdash" vs "|-"). It's easy enough that I just have "\" produce a lambda so I don't even need a specific shortcut key for that ("<M-RET>\" is almost as quick). I'd love to see something like that in drr, but I think that it might be too confusing since it already uses "\". Besides, in drr it makes sense to just have something less sophisticated and rely on the OS/GUI to make such things easier system-wide, whereas in Emacs the result of all of this is that I can use my thing even in places like file names, or isearch. (Now all that's missing is a drracket-jr resurrection...) -- ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life! _________________________ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev