Re: [Factor-talk] Communication from the KLF

[Eduardo C. <way...@gm...>]

Alex wrote:

> This is something that bugs me too. Four keystrokes is an especially high
> cost for very short strings. What if we had an alternative syntax for
> strings that don't contain spaces? Something like 'foo would be synonymous
> with "foo", but would save three keystrokes.

Hey Alex!

A nice trick is to rebind the ' key to print ". Then you can make the shifted 
version print '.

To day I was experimenting with something similar for the ':'. It's annoying 
that it's shifted and is used pretty often; the beginning of a word.

So I programmed Emacs: If I press the ';' key and I'm at the beginning of a 
line, it prints ':'.

I also had a fancier variant that Slava inspired. Instead of simply 
inserting ':', it inserts the whole word template:

	:  ( -- ) ;

leaving the cursor where the word name will go.

Ed