Peter Goodall (Jul 20 2021 at 01:44): Peter Goodall (Jul 20 2021 at 01:44):The Julia documentation https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/variables/ says "In the Julia REPL and several other Julia editing environments, you can type many Unicode math symbols by typing the backslashed LaTeX symbol name followed by tab."
How do I find a list of supported symbols and their expressions?
I tried \ddot{x} which failed.
Rein Zustand (Jul 20 2021 at 02:50):You can do x<tab>\ddot.
Brenhin Keller (Jul 20 2021 at 02:53):Or x\ddot<tab>
Brenhin Keller (Jul 20 2021 at 02:54):assuming you want ẍ
Brenhin Keller (Jul 20 2021 at 02:54):You can get a complete list by just typing \<tab>
Brenhin Keller (Jul 20 2021 at 02:55):But it's a long list!
Brenhin Keller (Jul 20 2021 at 02:55):Zulip won't even let me paste the whole thing
Brenhin Keller (Jul 20 2021 at 02:56):in any case, it's usually more useful to start typing \ and then _something_ you think is likely, and then hit <tab> twice to see the available options matching what you've typed so far
Peter Goodall (Jul 20 2021 at 05:23):Brenhin Keller said:
Or
x\ddot<tab>
Thanks Brenhin - isn't that beautiful!
Brenhin Keller (Jul 20 2021 at 05:39):My favorite trick is if you have a unicode symbol you want to type but don't know how, you can paste it into the Julia help?> prompt and it'll tell you how to type it!
help?> ẍ
"ẍ" can be typed by x\ddot<tab>
search:
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Peter Goodall said:
How do I find a list of supported symbols and their expressions?
Your question was already answered but just in case you're searching for sth again, have a look at this (rather long) list which is easily searchable via your browser's search feature (unlike the REPL output of \<tab>): https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/unicode-input/
cormullion (Jul 20 2021 at 09:26):using REPL; REPL.symbols_latex could probably be made searchable with a little effort
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