Yeah. Maybe I should replace regex ' *:=' rather than just ':='. That's easy enough with the plugin
On Tue, Nov 12, 2019, 12:12 PM Mike Miller <python-id...@mgmiller.net> wrote: > > On 2019-11-11 16:13, David Mertz wrote: > > I implemented this discussed arrow operator in vim with conceal plugin. > This is > > an example given in PEP 572. It looks perfectly fine. It also does not > require > > ANY change to Python-the-language. It just means that I can type ':' > followed > > by '=' to get that, rather than type 'Alt+Shift', '2', '1', '9', '0'. > So fewer > > keystrokes. No chording. Easier to type. And what gets saved to disk > is good > > old plain ASCII. > > I like your solution and think it looks great, though perhaps you forgot > the > space behind it? I'm not a huge fan of how modern Python is putting > colons > everywhere so this helps a tiny bit. > > > I don't hate how it looks, but I really, really don't get how it's > supposed to > > "transform my thinking about coding" to have a slightly different glyph > on > > screen. > > Probably would need several, as CB mentioned below. Still, debatable. > > > I mean, as shown in this example and a previous one I posted a > > screenshot of, I think it's cute and geeky to use a few math symbols in > the same > > way in my editor. I've been doing that for a few years, and it never > got beyond > > "slightly cute." > > Guessing there were a few rare curmudgeons who didn't think we needed > lowercase > letters before ascii and still a few who don't want syntax highlighting > either. > I realize we're hitting the land of diminishing returns on text, but once > features are gained I know I don't want to go back. > > For example, I use many useful Unicode symbols in my text strings and > console > output. Billions of folks are using non-latin alphabets right now because > Python3 makes it easy. All modern systems can handle them, why not? And > input > is not an significant issue, though it depends on the block. > _______________________________________________ > 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/4WNTP45AD43HJTZUTBBZF5KFOKVPPGLW/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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