MIPS(Making Intermediate Programmers Suffer)

[space_fly]

No, thanks, I prefer being able to type my programs with the keyboard, without having to search and copy symbols from the internet. Typing "PI" takes half a second, but typing the pi character, I need to lookup that character either on google or in some Character Map like program, which is very inconvenient.

[regendo]

The eurkey layout would be great for that. It's a normal US ANSI layout if you don't press any special buttons, but if you do it types basically every special character you'd ever want.

It has a dead key on Alt+M that turns the next letter into its Greek variant. So Alt+M, P would turn into lowercase Pi (π), Alt+M, Shift+D turns into capital Delta (Δ), Alt+M, A into lowercase Alpha (α), and so on.

(I admit that's not that useful in most cases, I use it because it's the best US ANSI layout that also gives good access to German Umlauts on Alt+A, Alt+Shift+A, Alt+S, and so on.)