Why I'm hesitating to switch to D

[Daniel Gibson]

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