Maybe a text-editor should allow the user to look at source code through different "lenses" (pun intended) and show the meanings of symbols whenever the user wants to see them.
Emacs (of course) has `prettify-symbols-mode` which lets you describe symbols (eg lambda) and replacement characters (eg λ); the effect is purely in the display system—the underlying buffer does not get modified.
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Maybe a text-editor should allow the user to look at source code through different "lenses" (pun intended) and show the meanings of symbols whenever the user wants to see them.
Emacs (of course) has `prettify-symbols-mode` which lets you describe symbols (eg lambda) and replacement characters (eg λ); the effect is purely in the display system—the underlying buffer does not get modified.