Re: can emacs do this

[Alexis]

Dan Espen writes:

> Rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Thursday, January 15, 2015 at 7:53:14 PM UTC+5:30, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>> > What facilities of emacs can be used for this?
>>> 
>>> The standard facility for that in recent Emacsen is
>>> `prettify-symbols-mode', which you can set up with something like
>>> 
>>>    (add-hook 'python-mode-hook
>>>              (lambda ()
>>>                (setq-local prettify-symbols-alist
>>>                            '(("lambda" . ?λ)
>>>                              ("math.sqrt" . ?√)
>>>                              ("math.pi" . ?π)
>>>                              ("sum" . ?Σ)))
>>>                (prettify-symbols-mode 1)))
>>
>>
>> Doesn't work in 24.3.1 does it?
>
> Looks like 24.4:
>
> http://emacsredux.com/blog/2014/08/25/a-peek-at-emacs-24-dot-4-prettify-symbols-mode/

Perhaps the `pretty-symbols` package, available from MELPA, might work
for those using Emacs < 24.4?

http://github.com/drothlis/pretty-symbols


Alexis.