Re: Using punctuation in abbrev

[Aurélien Aptel]

On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 7:21 AM, Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> wrote:
> Just curious: what Unicode chars do you regularly use?

mainly arrows, ×, ≠, ≈, ...

> Another thought: Pick a shortcut that is very "fast" (short, and
> without you having to move your hand), like M-; or C-o (it depends
> what is already wired into your hands, and what you already do
> useful stuff with - don't change that - but there are many
> shortcuts...).
>
> Then, write a defun that waits for a keystroke, then inserts the
> Unicode char depending on what was hit, So, say, M-; l is right
> arrow, M-; j is left arrow, M-; i is up arrow, etc.

That's not a bad alternative. I think I'll do this.