Great! This feature will be in Light Table soon, too – complete with fuzzy searching, so that it's easy to browse all available symbols :)
On 22 May 2014 18:27, Steven G. Johnson <stevenj....@gmail.com> wrote: > A quick update for people who haven't been tracking git closely: > > The Julia REPL (#6911), IJulia, and (soon) Emacs julia-mode (#6920) now > allows you to type many mathematical Unicode characters simply by typing > the LaTeX symbol and hitting TAB. > > e.g. you can type \alpha<TAB> and get α, or x\hat<TAB> and get x̂. > > There are currently 736 supported symbols (though not all of them are > valid in Julia identifiers). This should provide a consistent, > cross-platform Julian idiom for entering Unicode math. > > Hopefully this can also be added to other popular editors at some point, > e.g. presumably vim can be programmed to do this, and there is a somewhat > similar mode for Sublime (https://github.com/mvoidex/UnicodeMath). > (Less-programmable editors might need source-level patches, but it doesn't > seem like an unreasonable patch to suggest.) >
