Re: [Geiser-users] Shortcut for Inserting the Lambda Charac ter (λ)

[Sina K. Heshmati]

"Ray Racine" <address@hidden> said:

> Ah yes from a long time ago.  If you _really_ want some fun in your scheme
> code.  Add something like the following to your .emacs file as a scheme-mode
> hook.  Essentially all standard scheme "keywords" / special forms are
> reduced to _display_ as single char greek letters.  What is sort of cool is
> the source code stays unmodified and works just fine.  Emacs only displays
> the string "lambda" as a λ etc.
> 
> This was done as sort of joke years ago so the matching regexs for the
> compose-regions are pretty naive.   The lambda thing added to quack and
> later racket added it as well.  I originally found the lambda thing by
> accident after I saw someone else using "compose-region" for some similar
> purpose.  Can't recall. Stephan Monnier?

Thank you, Ray! This is fun indeed :)

Sina