use Perl

• vim digraphs (Score:1)

  by rhesa (5696)

  You could turn on vim's digraphs, and type l*.
  
  vim magic for this from my .vimrc:

    set encoding=utf-8
    set digraph

  Alternatively, you could use a imap or iab for it, e.g. imap ,\ λ.
  
  
  • Re: (Score:1)

    by rhesa (5696)

    You could turn on vim's digraphs, and type l*.

    
    Uh, make that ctrl+k l*. That's a lot harder to type than sub , so I'd go for the imap option.
    
    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Eric Wilhelm (6389)

      I haven't taken the plunge in the API quite yet, but I did put this in my .vimrc:
      
          imap <C-L> λ{}<ESC>:set encoding=utf8<CR>i
      
      And of course, you could just make that type "sub {" for you as well, but lambda reads better :-D
• Offer Alternatives (Score:2)

  by Theory (10)

  If it's a public interface, maybe offer an alternative?

  use utf8;
  sub &#955; (&) { shift }
  sub n (&) { shift }

  —Theory