With default fonts for 3.9 and Shout, I'm only getting '<-' characters in
Shout-highlighted views. I think this may actually be desireable behavior
(For Shout to process them, as there seems to be the air of deprecation of _
representation hanging about); all other text displays show underscores
properly. It is underscore in code comments, too.

-Lyndon

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Milan Zimmermann" <milan.zimmermann at sympatico.ca>
To: <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 3:41 PM
Subject: Re: Underscores (was: Re: 3.8 UI performance drop?)


> On December 6, 2004 05:31 am, stéphane ducasse wrote:
> > 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.
>
> yes, it's weird to see, in File List, stuff like ".bash<-history" instead
on
> ".bash_history"
>
> >
> > 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
>
>