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Julia has a few Unicode operators and will allow you to tabcomplete the LaTeX symbol in the REPL [1]. For example, \div followed by TAB becomes ÷. This can be implemented in popular editors [2].

[1] Not all are the common LaTeX macros. See http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/manual/unicode-input/

[2] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia-vim