From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rustom Mody Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Fire defun by typing keyword Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 17:16:48 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: <871u33mqj0.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> <87zjpjmuhj.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> <87k3gmbhjk.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> <87d2mdma8f.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1383793876 19129 80.91.229.3 (7 Nov 2013 03:11:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 03:11:16 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 07 04:11:25 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 1VeG0C-0006s7-DV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Nov 2013 04:11:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37096 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VeENt-00079s-W2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Nov 2013 20:27:45 -0500 X-Received: by 10.58.94.77 with SMTP id da13mr1992155veb.1.1383787008938; Wed, 06 Nov 2013 17:16:48 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.182.61.79 with SMTP id n15mr93obr.36.1383787008693; Wed, 06 Nov 2013 17:16:48 -0800 (PST) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!i2no14328112qav.0!news-out.google.com!9ni14580qaf.0!nntp.google.com!i2no14328101qav.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: <87d2mdma8f.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=59.95.23.141; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.95.23.141 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 01:16:48 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:202109 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:94380 Archived-At: On Thursday, November 7, 2013 4:02:55 AM UTC+5:30, Emanuel Berg wrote: > Rustom Mody writes: > > Well APL was conceived on that basis: every > > important/core concept was a keystroke away. > Cool, never heard of APL! > > And Iverson won the Turing award for that: > > http://www.jdl.ac.cn/turing/pdf/p444-iverson.pdf > Ha ha ha, so now you know who that award really belongs > to :D > Thanks, get back to you when I've read that article. BTW Gnu-Apl has been recently released http://www.gnu.org/software/apl/ Is fun to have at your side and try out the Iverson paper examples Only issue is the keyboard: the site suggests an xmodmap solution -- makes emacs practically unusable. However on modern X-windows something like shell command $ setxkbmap -layout "us,apl" -variant ",sax" -option "grp:alt_shift_toggle" will let you input apl I dont expect you can use it without X!!