[Newbies] syntaxHighlightingAsYouTypeLeftArrowAssignment

[Tobias Pape]

Hi


> On 18. Jan 2021, at 12:50, stes at PANDORA.BE <stes at telenet.be> wrote:
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> Thanks for the feedback.
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> Sorry for asking, yes, it works, sorry for claiming that it did NOT work.
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> I think I just forgot to "Save" my preferences, I selected "enable"
> for those options and tried it in a Workspace and I think it didn't have
> any effect.
> 
> Because the feedback confirmed that the option *is* working, I tried again ...
> 
> And for some reason (maybe "Save" ?) it works now ... 
> 
> I had noticed in Cuis-Smalltalk that they have this nice feature,
> and I wondered whether it also exists in Squeak.
> 
> So it does ...  the feature 1) displays all assignments in Squeak code
> as left-arrows for me and 2) when I type in a Workspace it immediately
> displays an assignment as a left arrow.
> 
> I use a TrueType font that I have found on the net,
> which displays the underscore as a left-arrow.
> 
> I configured that font as my "code font" in the appearances menu.
> 
> As Tobias Pape points out special TrueType fonts are *not* required as Squeak
> has the machinery to swap the glyphs.
> 
> However there are a few fonts on the net that have old encodings for the
> glyphs for up-arrow and left-arrow.
> 
> However the solution that Tobias Pape mentions is better, as no special font,
> is then required.
> 
> Perhaps a small advantage of using a special font is that the special font,
> can also work in editors outside Squeak.

Maybe using ← and ↑ could simply be used directly?

-t