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by markvangulik 2944 days ago
It’s a big concern, but technically most of the world doesn’t actually use ASCII. We use shortcuts in IntelliJ (and Eclipse before that), so if you want a right arrow, you type “rig”, pause a split second, and hit return to accept the “rightarrow” suggestion, which it replaces with a real right arrow. It’s as easy to use in that environment as any other kind of autocompletion.