Why I'm hesitating to switch to D

[Mike Wey]

On 06/30/2011 11:45 PM, Daniel Gibson wrote:
> Am 30.06.2011 23:41, schrieb simendsjo:
>> On 30.06.2011 23:39, bearophile wrote:
>>> Jonathan M Davis:
>>>
>>>> Actually, I find the backticks to be by far the most pleasant way to
>>>> get raw
>>>> strings in D.
>>>
>>> I don't have backticks on my keyboard, so I use them only when they
>>> are needed. They have even removed the backticks in the Python2 ->
>>> Python3 transition partially because of this (and partially because
>>> there is a more obvious way to do it in Python, and Python tries to
>>> keep only one obvious way to do things).
>>>
>>> Bye,
>>> bearophile
>>
>> Yeah, I hate backticks too.. I have to press Shift+` followed by space.
>> But often space won't work as the text editor understands that space
>> cannot be accented or something. So I often press ` twice and backspace
>> to delete the last one. This gives me 4 key presses just for a single
>> character... Wee...
>
> On Linux/X11 this could be fixed by disabling "dead keys" (at least as
> long as you don't need them to place accents on letters, which depends
> on the languages you're writing in).
> Dunno what the equivalent to this setting for Windows or OSX is though.
>
> Cheers,
> - Daniel

And if you still need some accents you can enable the compose key:
http://www.hermit.org/Linux/ComposeKeys.html

-- 
Mike Wey