Re: can emacs do this

[Dan Espen]

Rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> writes:

> On Thursday, January 15, 2015 at 7:53:14 PM UTC+5:30, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> > What facilities of emacs can be used for this?
>> 
>> The standard facility for that in recent Emacsen is
>> `prettify-symbols-mode', which you can set up with something like
>> 
>>    (add-hook 'python-mode-hook
>>              (lambda ()
>>                (setq-local prettify-symbols-alist
>>                            '(("lambda" . ?λ)
>>                              ("math.sqrt" . ?√)
>>                              ("math.pi" . ?π)
>>                              ("sum" . ?Σ)))
>>                (prettify-symbols-mode 1)))
>
>
> Doesn't work in 24.3.1 does it?

Looks like 24.4:

http://emacsredux.com/blog/2014/08/25/a-peek-at-emacs-24-dot-4-prettify-symbols-mode/

-- 
Dan Espen