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breaking the ; habit

Michael A. Miller mmiller3 at iupui.edu
Thu Feb 17 18:05:54 EST 2000 
>>>>> "Ivan" == Ivan Van Laningham <ivanlan at callware.com> writes:

    > Hi All-- "Garrett G. Hodgson" wrote:

    >> glue an inverted thumbtack to your ";" key.  if that
    >> doesn't work, coat it with poison, or maybe LSD.

    > I guess it shows what sort of person I am when I find this
    > suggestion at once gleefully morbid and deliciously elegant
    > in its simplicity.  Surely, it is the most Pythonic of the
    > proferred solutions.

It has a bad side effect though - at least on my keyboard I need
to use shift-; to make a :, which I need for python.  Another
solution, if you're using a unix variant and X, would be to remap
; to <space>.

Mike
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