Why I'm hesitating to switch to D

[simendsjo]

On 01.07.2011 00:03, Daniel Gibson wrote:
> Am 30.06.2011 23:58, schrieb simendsjo:
>> On 30.06.2011 23:45, 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
>>
>> I need it for my language, but very rarely, so I wouldn't miss it much.
>> I haven't heard of this before, but I'll try to search around for
>> solutions for windows.
>> Thanks for the tip.
>
> Maybe there is a solution to enable and disable them with a keyboard
> shortcut.
> I guess this is not only a problem for backticks but also for ~ and ^
> (which may be more useful for everyday programming), so a way to
> disable/enable dead keys on the fly is probably really useful.
>
> Cheers,
> - Daniel

~ is Ctrl+Alt+~+Space
^ is Shift+^+Space
{ is Ctrl+Alt+{
[ is Ctrl+Alt+[
( is Shift+(

~ is the most tedious as D uses it a lot.. 4 key presses.

I've seriously thought about changing to an programmer or English layout 
while programming..