Eric,
If you use a compose key on Linux, chances are that ellipsis is bound to
`compose-.-.`. I don't think the two-point ellipsis is typically bound to
anything.
On Emacs, input methods are easily extensible, but if you use Company Math
to write unicode symbols (which is an autocompletion-based approach), which
I've never figured out how to configure, then you will have ellipsis bound
on `\ldots`, but no two-point ellipsis.
If someone has insight about why the syntax was chosen to be two dots
rather than three, originally. I still think that it could inform this
discussion.
On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 2:49 AM Eric Seidel
I agree it's strange to use a three dot unicode ellipsis but a two dot ascii ellipsis.
Joachim, as someone who likes to use unicode in Haskell, is there a reason to think that the two dot ellipsis would be more cumbersome to type? Maybe emacs unicode modes or something?
-1 from me.
The proposed (… U+2026) is three dots, so it could be the UnicodeSyntax equivalent to three ASCII dots. However, Haskell’s range notation is two ASCII dots.
Personally I use three dots to indicate omissions in the source text,
On Tue, Feb 15, 2022, at 14:37, Vladislav Zavialov (int-index) wrote: like this:
f x = …
So that is the meaning I’d like to reserve for three dots, not ranges.
The proposal could use ‥ U+2025 instead.
- Vlad
On 15 Feb 2022, at 14:27, Joachim Breitner
wrote:
Dear Committee,
Proposal #277 “Unicode ellipsis” has been submitted by Ignat Insarov, and I’m shepherding it myself.
https://github.com/kindaro/ghc-proposals/blob/unicode-ellipsis/proposals/477...
This is a very small proposal that lets GHC understand the nice Unicode syntax `…` in places where in ASCII world we have .., under -XUnicodeSyntax.
I am fond of Unicode in general, and I expect that users of - XUnicodeSyntax expect this to work, and therefore recommend acceptance of this proposal.
Cheers, Joachim
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