From: Michael Neumann <mneumann@...>
Date: 2008-05-10T06:36:51+09:00
Subject: Re: lambda, ->, haskell, and so on

Phil Hagelberg wrote:
> "E S" <ruby-ml@kittensoft.org> writes:
> 
>> How about we just move to UTF-8 source files and
>> use the actual lambda character instead of arguing
>> weeks on end about which ASCII representation is
>> least unlike the lambda character?
> 
> Actually, you can do this with an alias already for regular lambdas. But
> it would be great if that alias were set up for you automatically.
> 
> I've already set up Emacs to render the string "lambda" as �� and have
> bound C-c l to insert it. It's just a matter of getting proper tool
> support. =)
> 
> -Phil
> 
> 
> 
> (add-hook 'ruby-mode-hook
>   (lambda ()
>     (font-lock-add-keywords
>        nil `(("(?\\(lambda\\>\\)"
> 	    (0 (progn (compose-region (match-beginning 1) (match-end 1)
> 		  		    ,(make-char 'greek-iso8859-7 107))
> 		      nil))))))
> 
> (define-key ruby-mode-map (kbd "C-c l") (lambda () (interactive) (insert "lambda")))


Anyone having a vim equivalent? :)

Regards,

   Michael