Why I'm hesitating to switch to D

[James Fisher]

The Compose Key is fantastic.  It's a tragedy it's not enabled by default.

On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Mike Wey <mike-wey at example.com> wrote:

> 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<http://www.hermit.org/Linux/ComposeKeys.html>
>
> --
> Mike Wey
>
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