It's easy, just use vim! (with conceal plugin). I haven't changed anything other than keywords and built-ins, but the plugin is happy to replace any other sequence or pattern.
On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 9:26 AM Joao S. O. Bueno <jsbu...@python.org.br> wrote: > Adrien - please take note that since you already wrote about > "everybody could update their environment and editors" to support unicode, > things like what you want (emojis in identifiers) can be supported > at programming editor (and plug-ins and extensions for those) level - > without impairing anyone else from working on your codebase. > > You can just work on an extension for your favorite editor that > would transform certain escaped sequences into proper emojis. > If these escapes are themselves valid identifiers, there is no > stopping you and whatever enthusiast comunity you can raise > from having fun with the looks of "pyemojicode", and that wold > still allow people outside that community to interoperate with your code, > and all of the tools that use the static source would still work. > > So, all you need is an extension to replace, at display time things liks > EMO_fire_ -> 🔥 > EMO_heart -> 🖤 > > And so on. With a browser extension, or a site that acts as a proxy > to code hosting like github/bitbucket, enthusiasts could even see these > characters in internet listings. (The escaping sequence could be less > intrusive as well, > your call - and it also would help getting those symbols input into the > code to start with) > > > > On Mon, 15 Jul 2019 at 10:47, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Mon, 15 Jul 2019 at 14:33, Dan Sommers >> <2qdxy4rzwzuui...@potatochowder.com> wrote: >> > >> > On 7/15/19 8:54 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> > > = .(, ) >> > >> > I call foul. At least tentatively. For the moment. >> >> That was a demo (he used private area characters to ensure getting the >> square box substitute character). The point is that someone with the >> wrong font installed, or a limited terminal app, can get this sort of >> output with entirely legal characters - and anyway the comment was >> made to explain why *extending* the list of allowed characters was bad >> (so what's legal right now is not relevant). >> >> On Mon, 15 Jul 2019 at 14:13, Adrien Ricocotam <ricoco...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > >> > We can already do this is already ( >> https://github.com/satwikkansal/wtfpython#-skipping-lines) so it's not a >> problem to me. It is a problem but not related to unicode. >> >> That's *exactly* the issue of confusable characters, which is a >> Unicode issue. So I don't see how you can say it's "not related to >> Unicode". It's not directly related to *changing* which Unicode >> characters are allowed in identifiers - that much is true (at least >> partially, it's quite possible that changing the list would result in >> having more confusables, so increasing the risk) - but that's not what >> you claimed. >> >> Paul >> _______________________________________________ >> Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ >> Message archived at >> https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/VQ2R5PO3VZTBU2U7JC4XF6PZSZO7HRDH/ >> Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >> > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/IYOAMGKYVCLXGLZKKVTZKNG7FECFIRIV/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > -- Keeping medicines from the bloodstreams of the sick; food from the bellies of the hungry; books from the hands of the uneducated; technology from the underdeveloped; and putting advocates of freedom in prisons. Intellectual property is to the 21st century what the slave trade was to the 16th.
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