On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote: > So let me talk of which input methods I use -- devanagari and tex. > I have devanagari-itrans set up in emacs as default (other) input method > So Ctrl-\ (ie 1½ keystrokes) puts emacs into devanagari mode
Yes, but putting emacs into a different mode, typing one letter, and putting it back into the other mode is going to be more like 5 keystrokes. And that lets you have just one other input method; if you have more than two, the cost will be higher. So replacing "lambda" with "λ" is a minimal saving, practically zip [1] when you consider the readability cost of having two ways of spelling the exact same thing. For this to be useful, you'd need to be able to both read and write much more efficiently. It has to be something where you can quickly switch from ASCII letters and symbols to a non-ASCII lambda and back to ASCII for the arguments and expression. ChrisA [1] No offense meant to the builtin function! -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
