[Cuis-dev] [IMPROV] Unicode Input in Editor

[Gerald Klix]

Hi Juan,

Great that you like it.

Sometimes I also miss the opportunity
to type just \Right for ⇒
(who knows by heart that its code-point is 21D2)
in text editors.
Therefore I am tempted to move this functionality up
form SmalltalkEditor to Editor (or TextEditor).
Are there only objections from your or the
communities side?

While I am talking/writing about it:
There is no way to discover all the available
backslash-shortcuts, unless you dig deep and find
UnicodeCodePoint class>>#initializeNamedCharactersMap.
It would be nice if code completion will cover
these cases.


Just my 0.01€,

Gerald



On 7/27/23 7:33 PM, Juan Vuletich wrote:
> Hi Gerald,
>
> This is very nice. Thank you.
>
> It is now at GitHub.
>
> Cheers,
>
> On 7/27/2023 7:27 AM, Gerald Klix via Cuis-dev wrote:
>> Hi all, Hi Juan,
>>
>> I missed some means to enter arbitrary Unicode characters
>> in text editors. For reasons I do not understand
>> the usual Ctrl-u-based X11 hack does not work with Cuis.
>>
>> Therefore I hacked Editor>>#normalCharacter: to convert
>> strings like '\+161 ' -- note the trailing blank --
>> to the corresponding Unicode code point.
>> The integer is interpreted as hexadecimal.
>>
>> As a nice effect of inheritance this
>> works in any Smalltalk editor, too.
>>
>>
>> HTH and Best Regards,
>>
>> Gerald