Re: Writing source code with Unicode characters

[Óscar Fuentes]

Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es> writes:

> I'll like to experiment with using Unicode on source code (λ instead of
> lambda, etc) but it seems quite inconvenient to insert those chars with
> C-x 8 RET. Org-mode has the capability of displaying λ when you type
> \lambda, but that's just a display replacement, the raw text still is
> \lambda.
>
> What can I use to make more convenient the insertion of Unicode chars?
> (I'm mostly interested on Greek letters and other math-related symbols)

Drew:

Thanks but that's not quite the thing I'm looking for. It is good when
you need to write a few unicode chars and wish to save a few keystrokes
by not invoking C-x 8 RET <name>, but not so convenient when you are
interested on quickly typing unicode chars on a similar way you type
ordinary text, which would require setting quite a few keybindings and
it would not be an advantage over binding the key sequences to
(insert-char <the-char-itself>).

Eli:

That's very nice and something I'll would use if there is not something
better.

Göktuğ Kayaalp:

That's the best approach so far, IMHO. Just before reading your
responses, I discovered on the net a commercial Emacs package that does
exactly that. As you demonstrated, the functionality is quite easy to
implement. Instead of using just the two last chars, we can use
(thing-at-point 'symbol) and then we can map (a -> \alpha), (and ->
logical symbol and), etc

Thanks so much to all.