Hiya While I'm a big fan of editor customising I think it's important to make technology as accessible as possible. Maybe people (most?) will not know how to either type these characters with their keyboard or know how to configure their editor to enter them on their behalf. Adoption will be slow and the language will seem unfriendly if its features are not usable by all.
Cheers, Louis On Wed, 15 Apr 2020, 13:13 Ivan Rublev, <ivan.rublev.busin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for your comment. It may seem frustrating to use a shortcut to > enter a symbol, especially when it's not engraved on a keyboard. Same time, > we use shortcuts every day to speed up input. > Emacs and Vim are enhanced editors. And I'm glad to hear that you use > them. Emacs is very tweakable, and this is one of the brilliant properties > of this tool that you can adjust for your comfort. F.e. adding (global-set-key > [?\M-\q] [?\x00AB]) to the Emacs Init File gives you « symbol entered > when you press Alt+q. And a key combination suitable for you can be > assigned. Vim supports special symbols entered as-is coming from the OS > input subsystem. F.e. in MacOS Vim, you can press the Alt+\ and have « > symbol entered when in Input mode. > > A new operator should be easily typed in as many keyboard layouts as > possible. Primarily because of that, these symbols « µ ¶ ¿ were suggested. > Please, see input support for these symbols with US-international / > UK-extended / German layouts in different OSes: > Windows (Alt + key): > https://sites.psu.edu/symbolcodes/windows/codeint/#foreign > Linux (Compose key shortcuts): > https://fsymbols.com/keyboard/linux/compose/ > macOS (Alt + key): https://fsymbols.com/keyboard/mac/ > > On Tuesday, April 14, 2020 at 9:06:29 PM UTC+2, me wrote: >> >> > Is it a ridiculous idea to add one of those symbols as a new operator >> > with the right to left associativity? >> >> As an Emacs (and light Vim) user, I would personally suggest against >> something like this. At least in Emacs, it is not as simple as just >> alt+keys in order to get these characters. And even if it were, >> newcomers to the language, and people who rarely use these operators, >> will have to lookup the key combination, or figure out how to do such a >> thing in their editor. >> >> I would suggest that if any new operators were added to the language, >> they should be easily typed in as many keyboard layouts as possible. >> >> Justin >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elixir-lang-core" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to elixir-lang-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/f8ebb77a-540d-44d1-bbee-8efbb101d981%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/f8ebb77a-540d-44d1-bbee-8efbb101d981%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elixir-lang-core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elixir-lang-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/CABu8xFDLGqx2kZV%2BCy7jjxesVHtVqC7KSEQTy%3DFURba06SYEUw%40mail.gmail.com.
