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Re:Try APL by cardanome on Thursday June 10, 2021 @12:45PM (#27462733)
Does anyone know of an input method for APL that works similar to an IME that you would use for Japanese?

Basically you type the name of the operator in latin characters and get the proper symbol autocompleted.

I only see direct key to symbol mappings which might be fine for a full time APL dev but offer a bit too much of a learning curve for just trying it out.

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Re:Try APL by WorldMaker on Thursday June 10, 2021 @03:14PM (#27464418)
The Windows emoji keyboard (Win+. or Win+; whichever is more comfortable for you) has a lot of the Unicode math symbols under its Symbols tab (marked with an omega). It has a pretty good IME-ish type to search experience for regular emoji, but doesn't support type to search under the Symbols tab. (I wish it did and hope it is something they consider adding.)
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Re:Try APL by Jtsummers on Thursday June 10, 2021 @12:53PM (#27462828)
The linked site uses a couple methods:

  `i => ⍳ (iota)
  ii<tab> => ⍳
In some editors you can change the prefix character (in emacs I think the default is . or I changed it to . almost immediately). Also in emacs (though I didn't try this with APL) you can use an entry method based on TeX so if you type:

  \iota
You will get

  ⍳
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Re:Try APL by abrudz on Thursday June 10, 2021 @03:12PM (#27464395)
The RIDE interface (https://github.com/dyalog/ride) allows you to type double-backtick and then a search word. Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/kagYC73.png
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Re:Try APL by keutoi on Thursday June 10, 2021 @09:25PM (#27468287)
Emacs has a good quail-completion system for `GNU-APL`.
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