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You can enter any symbol but not quickly unless you set up some hotkeys or something. There is a key on the keyboard for e. Whatever you have to do for a unicode set symbol, it's going to be harder than hitting the e key.

And with regards to hotkeys, let's say you do Ctrl+alt+shift+esc+e to insert a unicode symbol, is that really better than just having a programming language where the common hotkeys are spelled out with a few ASCII characters?



> There is a key on the keyboard for e. Whatever you have to do for a unicode set symbol, it's going to be harder than hitting the e key.

Seems https://fluxkeyboard.com/ might be a great fit for programming in APL and similar.


I have the apl keyboard set to super so ∊ is exactly as hard as E.


That's the reason the apl keyboard is good!




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