What Greg was describing would be optional (and out of scope for many users).
FYI, -- Raul On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Peter B. Kessler <[email protected]> wrote: > I hope you can make this kind of change uniform, so that if I were debugging > or tracing, etc., I saw my program in the same character set that I used to > write my program. Otherwise I can't use the powerful parallel processor > that is my vision system to match things up. > > ... peter > > > On 04/04/13 12:44, Greg Borota wrote: >> >> What I have in mind is just a display thing. Say you Select All and >> Copy/Paste the content of the editor window, you still get ASCII chars >> only. >> >> E.g: In GTK Term whenever you enter y as the verb argument it changes >> color >> and becomes italic (at least under Windows). What if you were to display >> the omega character instead? But behind the scenes you still hold y ASCII >> char indeed. Maybe those who already worked on GTK editor could add their >> feedback. >> >> And this could be an optional setting which one could turn on and off as >> wanted. Just a display setting. >> >> >> >> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Devon McCormick <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> I'm not sure this is really such a good idea. J is its own language and >>> mapping some J symbols to APL ones could be misleading. Also, as much as >>> I >>> like the look of APL, I'm happy not to deal with the continuing hiccups >>> caused by the character set. >>> >>> At last year's APL Moot, I showed my fellow mooters that I could cut and >>> paste Chinese characters into an emacs session with no apparent problem >>> but >>> some of the APL characters from a website did not come over cleanly. >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 1:57 PM, Greg Borota <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> I think it might be a quicker path to use ASCII behind the scenes still >>> >>> but >>>> >>>> have some editor/term software (Visual Studio in this case) display >>>> words >>>> of interest as APL symbols. Like in MS Word where you type (c) and it's >>>> automatically displayed as Copyright Symbol ©. >>>> >>>> This could even be an Options settings where one could turn it on and >>> >>> off. >>>> >>>> I think this is doable with reasonable effort with Visual Studio, but I >>> >>> am >>>> >>>> thinking the idea could be used with Qt or GKT also. Unless I am missing >>>> something which I might see only after starting the actual >>>> implementation >>>> :-) >>>> >>>> I am very new to APL land, but I really liked the APL symbols. When I >>> >>> first >>>> >>>> started with computers I was puzzled why math symbols were not used by C >>> >>> (C >>>> >>>> was my first higher level language after Assembly)... >>>> >>>> >>>> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 12:41 PM, PMA <[email protected]> >>> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> What a wonderful idea! I wish I had >>>>> the competence & time to pursue it. >>>>> >>>>> Pete >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> J. Patrick Harrington wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> ... My dream would be to have J expressible in APL-like >>>>>> >>>>>> characters (there isn't a one-to-one correspondance, though most >>> >>> symbols >>>>>> >>>>>> could be carried over). Then J could have two >>>>>> forms, like hieroglyphic and demotic Egyptian: ASCII J for use >>>>>> in emails & everywhere, and APL-like J for use on your main >>>>>> machine: more compact and beautiful to look at. I really hope >>>>>> that such a project gets under way. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >>> ------------------------------**------------------------------**---------- >>>>> >>>>> For information about J forums see >>> >>> http://www.jsoftware.com/**forums.htm >>>> >>>> <http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Devon McCormick, CFA >>> ^me^ at acm. >>> org is my >>> preferred e-mail >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >>> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
