I think that what is important is that when I read texts that are not 
smalltalk code
I would like to read _ (for example try to read the CParser in Smacc to 
see what I mean) and not <-.

So I agree with that I would prefer that a special key combination. 
Because the default showing
_ as <- is a problem because it is system wide for all the editors.

Stef


> Yoshiki Ohshima <Yoshiki.Ohshima at acm.org> wrote on 05.12.2004 06:26:02:
>>  * utilize the leftarrow and uparrow from the Unicode.
>>    - When the user types $: and then $=, the editor converts it to a
>>    leftarrow.
>>       - if you don't want them converted type $:, space, $= and remove
>>         the space.
>>    - When the user types $^, the editor converts it to an uparrow.
>>       - with some other combination, the user will get $^.
>
> This part of your "theory" is highly questionable, because this would 
> give us
> an editor which is unusable for general purposes. Such irritating user-
> overriding reminds me of Word. Furthermore there are programmers who 
> are using
> := and ^ instead of leftarrow and uparrow. So my suggestion would be 
> to do it
> the other way round and provide a special key combination for the 
> non-ascii
> chars. With special key combination I mean something which starts with 
> a
> modifier key or a function key in order to not getting in the way of 
> normal
> typing.
>
> regards
> Martin
>
>