Am 01.07.2011 00:12, schrieb simendsjo:
> On 01.07.2011 00:03, Daniel Gibson wrote:
>> Am 30.06.2011 23:58, schrieb simendsjo:
>>> On 30.06.2011 23:45, Daniel Gibson wrote:
>>>> Am 30.06.2011 23:41, schrieb simendsjo:
>>>>> On 30.06.2011 23:39, bearophile wrote:
>>>>>> Jonathan M Davis:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Actually, I find the backticks to be by far the most pleasant way to
>>>>>>> get raw
>>>>>>> strings in D.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I don't have backticks on my keyboard, so I use them only when they
>>>>>> are needed. They have even removed the backticks in the Python2 ->
>>>>>> Python3 transition partially because of this (and partially because
>>>>>> there is a more obvious way to do it in Python, and Python tries to
>>>>>> keep only one obvious way to do things).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Bye,
>>>>>> bearophile
>>>>>
>>>>> Yeah, I hate backticks too.. I have to press Shift+` followed by
>>>>> space.
>>>>> But often space won't work as the text editor understands that space
>>>>> cannot be accented or something. So I often press ` twice and
>>>>> backspace
>>>>> to delete the last one. This gives me 4 key presses just for a single
>>>>> character... Wee...
>>>>
>>>> On Linux/X11 this could be fixed by disabling "dead keys" (at least as
>>>> long as you don't need them to place accents on letters, which depends
>>>> on the languages you're writing in).
>>>> Dunno what the equivalent to this setting for Windows or OSX is though.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> - Daniel
>>>
>>> I need it for my language, but very rarely, so I wouldn't miss it much.
>>> I haven't heard of this before, but I'll try to search around for
>>> solutions for windows.
>>> Thanks for the tip.
>>
>> Maybe there is a solution to enable and disable them with a keyboard
>> shortcut.
>> I guess this is not only a problem for backticks but also for ~ and ^
>> (which may be more useful for everyday programming), so a way to
>> disable/enable dead keys on the fly is probably really useful.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> - Daniel
>
> ~ is Ctrl+Alt+~+Space
> ^ is Shift+^+Space
> { is Ctrl+Alt+{
> [ is Ctrl+Alt+[
> ( is Shift+(
>
> ~ is the most tedious as D uses it a lot.. 4 key presses.
>
My keyboard (german layout) has an "Alt Gr" key. So for me it's AltGr+~
for ~ (and, if dead keys are enabled, +space additionally) etc.
> I've seriously thought about changing to an programmer or English layout
> while programming..
Me too, but I didn't really get used to it. But then again, the AltGr
combinations are still somehow bearable, while ctrl-alt combinations
sound quite annoying.
