foo!(bar) ==> foo{bar}

Alexander Pánek alexander.panek at brainsware.org
Wed Oct 8 09:00:14 PDT 2008


KennyTM~ wrote:
> Alexander Pánek wrote:
>> ore-sama wrote:
>>> Walter Bright Wrote:
>>>
>>>> What I'd really like are those funky « and » quote characters. But 
>>>> alas, few keyboards have them on it. (I inserted them here by 
>>>> cutting and pasting from somewhere else, hardly very practical. I 
>>>> could modify my text editor to make it easy, but what about every 
>>>> other ascii text editor people use?)
>>>
>>> On windows this can be ruled out with custom keyboard layout. There 
>>> was a utility on microsoft site, that builds such a layout.
>>
>> You can also provide a custom keyboard layout on Linux/X11/Xorg 
>> through Xkb.
> 
> Isn't it too much asking a user to build a custom keyboard layout just 
> for using the template feature?

I dunno. Probably. It’s also a wee bit much to ask for a change of 
syntax because you have an exclamation mark phobia.



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