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When you type ->, it is automatically turned into the [Rule] character. Can we configure our frontends to do the same for the [[ and ]] characters, which could be turned into [LeftDoubleBracket] and [RightDoubleBracket]?



You can easily do this manually by typing <esc>[[<esc>, but I would like to do this automatically.



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    Do you really want that when writing func[func2[arg]]? I changed KeyEventTranslations.tr to have <kbd>Alt gr</kbd>+<kbd>i</kbd>/<kbd>o</kbd>.
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    – Coolwater
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    Yes, this is part of the problem. Ideally it would only happen after you have typed the matching [[, but more than likely it needs to be done at shift-enter at the earliest. For [[ the problem is simpler because there is no time when you would type [[ except for as part of a Part expression.
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    closely related: 98175
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    – Kuba
    1 hour ago










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    @Kuba That's so closely related I suppose you could make an argument for this being a duplicate, what do you think?
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    – Carl Lange
    44 mins ago










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    @CarlLange I linked that one in the chat so I assumed you didn't find it close enough.
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$begingroup$


When you type ->, it is automatically turned into the [Rule] character. Can we configure our frontends to do the same for the [[ and ]] characters, which could be turned into [LeftDoubleBracket] and [RightDoubleBracket]?



You can easily do this manually by typing <esc>[[<esc>, but I would like to do this automatically.



This question was originally asked by me in the chat and has answers there; this question is so that those answers can be added and kept for the community.










share|improve this question











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  • 2




    $begingroup$
    Do you really want that when writing func[func2[arg]]? I changed KeyEventTranslations.tr to have <kbd>Alt gr</kbd>+<kbd>i</kbd>/<kbd>o</kbd>.
    $endgroup$
    – Coolwater
    3 hours ago











  • $begingroup$
    Yes, this is part of the problem. Ideally it would only happen after you have typed the matching [[, but more than likely it needs to be done at shift-enter at the earliest. For [[ the problem is simpler because there is no time when you would type [[ except for as part of a Part expression.
    $endgroup$
    – Carl Lange
    3 hours ago











  • $begingroup$
    closely related: 98175
    $endgroup$
    – Kuba
    1 hour ago










  • $begingroup$
    @Kuba That's so closely related I suppose you could make an argument for this being a duplicate, what do you think?
    $endgroup$
    – Carl Lange
    44 mins ago










  • $begingroup$
    @CarlLange I linked that one in the chat so I assumed you didn't find it close enough.
    $endgroup$
    – Kuba
    39 mins ago














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When you type ->, it is automatically turned into the [Rule] character. Can we configure our frontends to do the same for the [[ and ]] characters, which could be turned into [LeftDoubleBracket] and [RightDoubleBracket]?



You can easily do this manually by typing <esc>[[<esc>, but I would like to do this automatically.



This question was originally asked by me in the chat and has answers there; this question is so that those answers can be added and kept for the community.










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When you type ->, it is automatically turned into the [Rule] character. Can we configure our frontends to do the same for the [[ and ]] characters, which could be turned into [LeftDoubleBracket] and [RightDoubleBracket]?



You can easily do this manually by typing <esc>[[<esc>, but I would like to do this automatically.



This question was originally asked by me in the chat and has answers there; this question is so that those answers can be added and kept for the community.







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    $begingroup$
    Do you really want that when writing func[func2[arg]]? I changed KeyEventTranslations.tr to have <kbd>Alt gr</kbd>+<kbd>i</kbd>/<kbd>o</kbd>.
    $endgroup$
    – Coolwater
    3 hours ago











  • $begingroup$
    Yes, this is part of the problem. Ideally it would only happen after you have typed the matching [[, but more than likely it needs to be done at shift-enter at the earliest. For [[ the problem is simpler because there is no time when you would type [[ except for as part of a Part expression.
    $endgroup$
    – Carl Lange
    3 hours ago











  • $begingroup$
    closely related: 98175
    $endgroup$
    – Kuba
    1 hour ago










  • $begingroup$
    @Kuba That's so closely related I suppose you could make an argument for this being a duplicate, what do you think?
    $endgroup$
    – Carl Lange
    44 mins ago










  • $begingroup$
    @CarlLange I linked that one in the chat so I assumed you didn't find it close enough.
    $endgroup$
    – Kuba
    39 mins ago













  • 2




    $begingroup$
    Do you really want that when writing func[func2[arg]]? I changed KeyEventTranslations.tr to have <kbd>Alt gr</kbd>+<kbd>i</kbd>/<kbd>o</kbd>.
    $endgroup$
    – Coolwater
    3 hours ago











  • $begingroup$
    Yes, this is part of the problem. Ideally it would only happen after you have typed the matching [[, but more than likely it needs to be done at shift-enter at the earliest. For [[ the problem is simpler because there is no time when you would type [[ except for as part of a Part expression.
    $endgroup$
    – Carl Lange
    3 hours ago











  • $begingroup$
    closely related: 98175
    $endgroup$
    – Kuba
    1 hour ago










  • $begingroup$
    @Kuba That's so closely related I suppose you could make an argument for this being a duplicate, what do you think?
    $endgroup$
    – Carl Lange
    44 mins ago










  • $begingroup$
    @CarlLange I linked that one in the chat so I assumed you didn't find it close enough.
    $endgroup$
    – Kuba
    39 mins ago








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$begingroup$
Do you really want that when writing func[func2[arg]]? I changed KeyEventTranslations.tr to have <kbd>Alt gr</kbd>+<kbd>i</kbd>/<kbd>o</kbd>.
$endgroup$
– Coolwater
3 hours ago





$begingroup$
Do you really want that when writing func[func2[arg]]? I changed KeyEventTranslations.tr to have <kbd>Alt gr</kbd>+<kbd>i</kbd>/<kbd>o</kbd>.
$endgroup$
– Coolwater
3 hours ago













$begingroup$
Yes, this is part of the problem. Ideally it would only happen after you have typed the matching [[, but more than likely it needs to be done at shift-enter at the earliest. For [[ the problem is simpler because there is no time when you would type [[ except for as part of a Part expression.
$endgroup$
– Carl Lange
3 hours ago





$begingroup$
Yes, this is part of the problem. Ideally it would only happen after you have typed the matching [[, but more than likely it needs to be done at shift-enter at the earliest. For [[ the problem is simpler because there is no time when you would type [[ except for as part of a Part expression.
$endgroup$
– Carl Lange
3 hours ago













$begingroup$
closely related: 98175
$endgroup$
– Kuba
1 hour ago




$begingroup$
closely related: 98175
$endgroup$
– Kuba
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$begingroup$
@Kuba That's so closely related I suppose you could make an argument for this being a duplicate, what do you think?
$endgroup$
– Carl Lange
44 mins ago




$begingroup$
@Kuba That's so closely related I suppose you could make an argument for this being a duplicate, what do you think?
$endgroup$
– Carl Lange
44 mins ago












$begingroup$
@CarlLange I linked that one in the chat so I assumed you didn't find it close enough.
$endgroup$
– Kuba
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@CarlLange I linked that one in the chat so I assumed you didn't find it close enough.
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You can use CellEpilog to modify the contents of the cell upon evaluation:



SetOptions[EvaluationNotebook[],
CellEpilog :> If[
! TrueQ[
Max@CurrentValue[CellChangeTimes] <=
CurrentValue[EvaluationCell[], TaggingRules, "autoreplaceTime"]
],
CurrentValue[EvaluationCell[], TaggingRules, "autoreplaceTime"] =
Max@CurrentValue[CellChangeTimes];
NotebookWrite[
EvaluationCell[],
Replace[NotebookRead[EvaluationCell[]],
RowBox@head_, "[", RowBox@"[", part_, "]", "]" :>
RowBox@head, "[LeftDoubleBracket]", part, "[RightDoubleBracket]", All]
]
]
]


Demonstration:
https://i.stack.imgur.com/4V5WJ.gif



This could of course be extended to do similar replacements for <|…|> etc. To minimize the performance hit, we keep track of the last CellChangeTimes value and only rerun the replacement code when it changed.



The nice thing about an approach like this (i.e. manipulation of the cell's box structure) is that it's rather straightforward to identify the bracket pairs to replace, since the front-end does all the necessary parsing for us.



An alternative to putting the code into CellEpilog might be to create a menu item for it, one could also modify the "Evaluate cells" menu item to run this code on all selected cells first.






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    $begingroup$

    You can use CellEpilog to modify the contents of the cell upon evaluation:



    SetOptions[EvaluationNotebook[],
    CellEpilog :> If[
    ! TrueQ[
    Max@CurrentValue[CellChangeTimes] <=
    CurrentValue[EvaluationCell[], TaggingRules, "autoreplaceTime"]
    ],
    CurrentValue[EvaluationCell[], TaggingRules, "autoreplaceTime"] =
    Max@CurrentValue[CellChangeTimes];
    NotebookWrite[
    EvaluationCell[],
    Replace[NotebookRead[EvaluationCell[]],
    RowBox@head_, "[", RowBox@"[", part_, "]", "]" :>
    RowBox@head, "[LeftDoubleBracket]", part, "[RightDoubleBracket]", All]
    ]
    ]
    ]


    Demonstration:
    https://i.stack.imgur.com/4V5WJ.gif



    This could of course be extended to do similar replacements for <|…|> etc. To minimize the performance hit, we keep track of the last CellChangeTimes value and only rerun the replacement code when it changed.



    The nice thing about an approach like this (i.e. manipulation of the cell's box structure) is that it's rather straightforward to identify the bracket pairs to replace, since the front-end does all the necessary parsing for us.



    An alternative to putting the code into CellEpilog might be to create a menu item for it, one could also modify the "Evaluate cells" menu item to run this code on all selected cells first.






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      $begingroup$

      You can use CellEpilog to modify the contents of the cell upon evaluation:



      SetOptions[EvaluationNotebook[],
      CellEpilog :> If[
      ! TrueQ[
      Max@CurrentValue[CellChangeTimes] <=
      CurrentValue[EvaluationCell[], TaggingRules, "autoreplaceTime"]
      ],
      CurrentValue[EvaluationCell[], TaggingRules, "autoreplaceTime"] =
      Max@CurrentValue[CellChangeTimes];
      NotebookWrite[
      EvaluationCell[],
      Replace[NotebookRead[EvaluationCell[]],
      RowBox@head_, "[", RowBox@"[", part_, "]", "]" :>
      RowBox@head, "[LeftDoubleBracket]", part, "[RightDoubleBracket]", All]
      ]
      ]
      ]


      Demonstration:
      https://i.stack.imgur.com/4V5WJ.gif



      This could of course be extended to do similar replacements for <|…|> etc. To minimize the performance hit, we keep track of the last CellChangeTimes value and only rerun the replacement code when it changed.



      The nice thing about an approach like this (i.e. manipulation of the cell's box structure) is that it's rather straightforward to identify the bracket pairs to replace, since the front-end does all the necessary parsing for us.



      An alternative to putting the code into CellEpilog might be to create a menu item for it, one could also modify the "Evaluate cells" menu item to run this code on all selected cells first.






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        $begingroup$

        You can use CellEpilog to modify the contents of the cell upon evaluation:



        SetOptions[EvaluationNotebook[],
        CellEpilog :> If[
        ! TrueQ[
        Max@CurrentValue[CellChangeTimes] <=
        CurrentValue[EvaluationCell[], TaggingRules, "autoreplaceTime"]
        ],
        CurrentValue[EvaluationCell[], TaggingRules, "autoreplaceTime"] =
        Max@CurrentValue[CellChangeTimes];
        NotebookWrite[
        EvaluationCell[],
        Replace[NotebookRead[EvaluationCell[]],
        RowBox@head_, "[", RowBox@"[", part_, "]", "]" :>
        RowBox@head, "[LeftDoubleBracket]", part, "[RightDoubleBracket]", All]
        ]
        ]
        ]


        Demonstration:
        https://i.stack.imgur.com/4V5WJ.gif



        This could of course be extended to do similar replacements for <|…|> etc. To minimize the performance hit, we keep track of the last CellChangeTimes value and only rerun the replacement code when it changed.



        The nice thing about an approach like this (i.e. manipulation of the cell's box structure) is that it's rather straightforward to identify the bracket pairs to replace, since the front-end does all the necessary parsing for us.



        An alternative to putting the code into CellEpilog might be to create a menu item for it, one could also modify the "Evaluate cells" menu item to run this code on all selected cells first.






        share|improve this answer











        $endgroup$



        You can use CellEpilog to modify the contents of the cell upon evaluation:



        SetOptions[EvaluationNotebook[],
        CellEpilog :> If[
        ! TrueQ[
        Max@CurrentValue[CellChangeTimes] <=
        CurrentValue[EvaluationCell[], TaggingRules, "autoreplaceTime"]
        ],
        CurrentValue[EvaluationCell[], TaggingRules, "autoreplaceTime"] =
        Max@CurrentValue[CellChangeTimes];
        NotebookWrite[
        EvaluationCell[],
        Replace[NotebookRead[EvaluationCell[]],
        RowBox@head_, "[", RowBox@"[", part_, "]", "]" :>
        RowBox@head, "[LeftDoubleBracket]", part, "[RightDoubleBracket]", All]
        ]
        ]
        ]


        Demonstration:
        https://i.stack.imgur.com/4V5WJ.gif



        This could of course be extended to do similar replacements for <|…|> etc. To minimize the performance hit, we keep track of the last CellChangeTimes value and only rerun the replacement code when it changed.



        The nice thing about an approach like this (i.e. manipulation of the cell's box structure) is that it's rather straightforward to identify the bracket pairs to replace, since the front-end does all the necessary parsing for us.



        An alternative to putting the code into CellEpilog might be to create a menu item for it, one could also modify the "Evaluate cells" menu item to run this code on all selected cells first.







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