2009/9/16 Robby Findler <ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu>: > 2009/9/16 Anthony Cowley <acow...@seas.upenn.edu>:
>> In Aquamacs, I just hit C-\ to toggle it, and then all the usual TeX >> macros work, with auto-completion. > > That's a bit different than DrScheme: in DrScheme, it isn't a mode; > you hit control-\ after typing a tex command. It would be good to have > a way to get autocompletion there, but I'm hesitant to add yet another > mode. This might be a bike shed discussion, but I much prefer the way Mathematica handles the entering of mathematical symbols to the DrScheme way. In Mathematica one must activates "symbol entering mode" before entering the character name. This is done via an easily found key stroke (as opposed to the more cumbersome C-\ BTW: On non-US keyboards \ is missing, so C-\ requires pressing three keys at the same time). Mathematica chose ESC as the key to enter char-inserting-mode. The carret changes visual appearence (to a verticl dotted line instead of a solid vertical line). Then one enters the character name, and finally one hits ESC again. It is works very nicely because ESC is easy to hit. Mathematica defines quite a few short cuts for the common characters such as ESC a ESC for alpha, ESC => ESC for Leftrigtarrow etc. http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/tutorial/EnteringGreekLetters.html http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/tutorial/OtherMathematicalNotation.html I noticed the difference between the two mind sets when I recently wrote a program containing alpha, beta and gamma. -- Jens Axel Søgaard _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-dev
