Re: [Vim-latex-devel] Re: [Vim-latex-cvs] vimfiles/plugin imaps.vim,1.7,1.8

[Mikolaj M. <mi...@wp...>]

On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 01:30:44AM +0100, Luc Hermitte wrote:
> * On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 03:12:10PM -0800, Srinath Avadhanula <sr...@fa...> wrote:
> > Option 1:
> >     change things like '\onlyslides{??}??' to
> >     "\\onlyslides{\xab\xbb}\xab\xbb"
> Hard to read IMHO. Hard to maintain.
> > Option 2:
> >     Change it to something like "\\onlyslides{<++>}<++>"
> >     Here the placeholder (or marker) characters are "<+" and "+>".
> Easier to read, but imaps may not work with a new language using '<+'
> and '+>'. I think you should choose something expressive and odd enough
> to not beeing used by anything else.

But it is very hard to find something odd and common to various
encodings. Why not simple '<' and '>'? Easy to read; easy to maintain;
everywhere won't be problems with encoding; shorter than '<+', '+>'.

Mikolaj