Re: [Bug-apl] Another option for APL keyboard mapping

[Chris Jones]

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 01:37:18PM EDT, Chris Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 01:04:50AM EDT, David Lamkins wrote:
> > As much as I like gnu-apl-mode and aplwrap (I use both on a daily basis), I
> > felt like there ought to be a more lightweight approach to getting APL
> > characters into GNU APL.
> > 
> > Today I wrote `akt`, the APL Keyboard Translator.
> > 
> > https://github.com/TieDyedDevil/akt
> > 
> > This small C program simply reads stdin and writes stdout. It takes
> > advantage of the fact that most modern terminal emulators will map the Alt
> > key to send an ESC prefix; therefore APL characters are seen by `akt` as a
> > two-character sequence. `akt` maps this sequence to the Unicode character
> > expected by GNU APL.
> 
> [...]
> 
> Doesn't this amount to a GNU/APL-specific implementation of the standard
> X Compose mechanism?
> 
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-apl/2014-05/msg00004.html
> 
> CJ