[Cuis] How to display underscore characters?

[David T. Lewis]

On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 07:38:30PM -0400, Phil (list) wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-05-15 at 10:43 -0300, Juan Vuletich wrote:
> > Hi Hannes,
> > 
> > If you want to show all undescores as such (ASCII69, Unicode, most 
> > modern systems), everywhere, evaluate:
> >        StrikeFont useUnderscore
> > 
> > If you want to get left arrows (ASCII63, classic ST-80), evaluate:
> >        StrikeFont useLeftArrow
> > 
> > Maybe you also want to see variable assignment as := . For this evaluate:
> >       Preferences enable: #syntaxHighlightingAsYouTypeAnsiAssignment
> > 
> > Note: By default, Cuis accepts underscores as assignment, and also as 
> > part of selectors and variable names. This works independently of the 
> > choice of the glyph to be shown. There are also preferences for 
> > controlling this.
> > 
> 
> A question related to this: not too long ago I had to fileout some code
> that was derived from Cuis for use in a Pharo image and was surprised to
> find there were quite a few places where underscore assignments are
> still used in the core Squeak code... is there any way to do a mass
> update to change the _ assignments to :=?
>

Yes. Bert Freudenberg's FixUnderscores does this, and was been used for
updating the sources within Squeak. It can be found on SqueakMap:

  http://map.squeak.org/package/07bf6393-b2da-4563-8040-13e77e5e002f

SqueakMap may not be be convenient, let me know if you need a copy.

Dave