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Re: Writing source code with Unicode characters
From: |
Göktuğ Kayaalp |
Subject: |
Re: Writing source code with Unicode characters |
Date: |
Thu, 06 Feb 2014 21:23:17 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) |
I just came up with a solution for this: Have an alist from two characters
to unicode symbols, and have a function, when called, takes the two
characters to the left of the point, then lookup the alist and replace
them with the cdr of matching pair:
(defvar unicode-pair-alist '((".\\" . "λ")
("->" . "→")
("=>" . "⇒")))
(defun unicode-replace-previous-two-chars ()
(interactive)
(if (or (not (boundp 'unicode-pair-alist))
(null unicode-pair-alist))
(error "Please set ``unicode-pair-alist'' in order to use this
function."))
(let* ((pair (string (get-byte (- (point) 2))
(get-byte (- (point) 1))))
(usym-pair (assoc pair unicode-pair-alist)))
(if (null usym-pair)
(error (concat "Pair not in ``unicode-pair-alist'': " pair)))
(delete-backward-char 2)
(insert (cdr usym-pair))))
(global-set-key (kbd "C-'") 'unicode-replace-previous-two-chars)
One can map `->' to `→' directly, but then they can't insert `->'
easily, can they? What do you think of this? I have just came up with
this after I read your post, so I did not evaluate it's merits and perils.
Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es> writes:
> I'll like to experiment with using Unicode on source code (λ instead of
> lambda, etc) but it seems quite inconvenient to insert those chars with
> C-x 8 RET. Org-mode has the capability of displaying λ when you type
> \lambda, but that's just a display replacement, the raw text still is
> \lambda.
>
> What can I use to make more convenient the insertion of Unicode chars?
> (I'm mostly interested on Greek letters and other math-related symbols)
>
>
>
GK