On 13.03.2009, at 17:57, Cédrick Béler wrote:

>>> If, as Bert implied in the other "left arrow related" thread, Shout
>>> can render the := as a left arrow, then we get the best of both
>>> worlds, no?
>>>
>>> Problem is that I've never seen this behaviour. Can anybody verify
>>> whether it's actually true?
>>
>> It is controlled by a Preference -
>> syntaxHighlightingAsYouTypeLeftArrowAssignment.
>>
>> There is a corresponding Preference -
>> syntaxHighlightingAsYouTypeAnsiAssignment , which changes _ to :=
>>
>> (If both these preferences are false, then the method source is not
>> transformed)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Andy
>>
>
> I tried and it works... except instead of having a real left arrow, I
> get an underscore (strangely, this is working in pharo that way
> whereas in a fresh squeak dev based on 3.10, this isn't). Anyway,
> isn't the idea to have displayed "real" arrow   <-  ?


Looks like you need to teach Shout what character to use to display a  
left-arrow in your preferred font, now that the underscore actually  
displays as an underscore.

- Bert -