Quick Accent: add a shortcut for Unicode arrows

[domenic]

Description of the new feature / enhancement

I love Quick Accent! However, one of the most-typed special characters for me is →, and I believe this cannot be produced by Quick Accent.

It'd be a shame to have to install AutoHotkey or similar just to get Unicode arrows. I'd love it if Quick Accent could display them, perhaps as an "accented" version of >.

Concrete suggestion:

• Add > accents: →, ⇒
• Add < accents: ←, ⇒

More ambitious proposal, which probably would get bogged down debating whether it's too much scope-creep: try to incorporate most of the characters shown on http://xahlee.info/comp/unicode_arrows.html, maybe behind a special toggle (like there currently is for mathematical symbols)

Scenario when this would be used?

I very often write prose that talks about changing X → Y, and I much prefer a proper Unicode arrow to the lame ->.

Less often, I write prose about mathematical implication, which is usually written X ⇒ Y.

Supporting information

The existence of http://xahlee.info/comp/unicode_arrows.html shows this is kind of a common problem.

https://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+type+unicode+arrow+windows shows this is also a commonly-requested functionality.

[ukanuk]

I, too, frequently type → and ← in documentation for electrical engineering documentation and in PLC (computer) programs. I also type → for computer program navigation, e.g. telling someone to use Paint.NET to go to Menu→Effects→Blurs→Gaussian Blur...→Radius→5.0. I find the arrow is a very clear and concise way of saying "...and then next click..."

↔ is another one I use for bidirectional interactions. "A↔B" can for example mean swap values A and B, or it can mean network communication between A and B.