From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Using punctuation in abbrev Date: Sun, 02 Jun 2013 21:48:51 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87d2s4b8f0.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> References: <87vc5x3x5b.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1370205496 26305 80.91.229.3 (2 Jun 2013 20:38:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2013 20:38:16 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 02 22:38:18 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UjF2c-00037r-2I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Jun 2013 22:38:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38119 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UjF2b-0005Su-NP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Jun 2013 16:38:13 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: SWN/nubmpQxYKwY7hPy4YA.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:w0JngVD4burXeFOAwd0wKPfXqsI= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:198972 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 02 Jun 2013 16:38:00 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:91239 Archived-At: Aurélien Aptel writes: >> Just curious: what Unicode chars do you regularly use? > > mainly arrows, ×, ≠, ≈, ... Aha, so you are writing scientific stuff, or perhaps documentation with flow charts etc.? Or is there actually some new super programming language which take advantage of all that notation? (That would be... scary and impressive, at the same time.) >> Another thought: Pick a shortcut that is very "fast" (short, >> and without you having to move your hand), like M-; or C-o (it >> depends what is already wired into your hands, and what you >> already do useful stuff with - don't change that - but there >> are many shortcuts...). Then, write a defun that waits for a >> keystroke, then inserts the Unicode char depending on what was >> hit, So, say, M-; l is right arrow, M-; j is left arrow, M-; i >> is up arrow, etc. > > That's not a bad alternative. I think I'll do this. I'm happy you think so. Whatever solution you come up with, be sure to post it here so all can learn from it :) -- Emanuel Berg - programmer (hire me! CV below) computer projects: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 internet activity: http://home.student.uu.se/embe8573