Re: [Bug-apl] address@hidden Re: Another option for APL keyboard mapping

[Elias Mårtenson]

The issue is posts like this one: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.apl/rKrVCusLkc4/MpZBZKtxMEUJ

This particular post might not be the the most enthusiastic of posts, but it would be nice to have built-in features that prevents those arguments from appearing in the first place.

Regards,

Elias

On 24 October 2014 02:23, Chris Jones <address@hidden> wrote:

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 01:04:50AM EDT, David Lamkins wrote:

> As much as I like gnu-apl-mode and aplwrap (I use both on a daily basis), I
> felt like there ought to be a more lightweight approach to getting APL
> characters into GNU APL.
>
> Today I wrote `akt`, the APL Keyboard Translator.
>
> https://github.com/TieDyedDevil/akt
>
> This small C program simply reads stdin and writes stdout. It takes
> advantage of the fact that most modern terminal emulators will map the Alt
> key to send an ESC prefix; therefore APL characters are seen by `akt` as a
> two-character sequence. `akt` maps this sequence to the Unicode character
> expected by GNU APL.

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Doesn't this amount to a GNU/APL-specific implementation of the standard
X Compose mechanism?

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-apl/2014-05/msg00004.html

CJ