On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 10:49 AM Eric S Fraga <esflists@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Friday, 15 Dec 2017 at 10:40, Matt Price wrote:
> > tools: <code>Tools \rarr Web Developer \rarr Console</code> or
>
> So what is the problem?  The text in ~...~ markup *is* being exported to
> HTML.  What did you expect to see instead?  I am confused and maybe
> misunderstood what you were asking.
>

I believe that Matt wants to render the entities inside the verbatim/code
markup.

@Matt: Verbatim/markup blocks simply keep everything inside.. verbatim.
Because then how would some literally print \rarr if they wanted too..
Example: What if someone wanted to export: "Type ~\rarr~ to export \rarr".
It would be highly confusing if entities got interpreted in verbatim too :)

To do what you want, I would unleash the power of C-x 8 RET.

If you want to include the right arrow in the verbatim blocks, instead of
typing "\rarr", do C-x 8 RET, type "right arrow" and hit return again..
\rarr will be inserted in the buffer.. I mean → will be inserted literally.

I like inserting verbatim arrows too. So after I got tired of C-x 8 RET
"right arrow", I just bound the <right> key binding in the C-x 8 map to
directly insert .

=====
(use-package iso-transl
  :defer 10
  :config
  (progn
    ;; Add custom bindings to "C-x 8" map
    (dolist (binding
             '(
               ;; <snip>
               ;; arrows
               ("<right>" . [?→]) ; rightwards arrow
               ("<left>"  . [?←]) ; leftwards arrow
               ("<up>"    . [?↑]) ; upwards arrow
               ("<down>"  . [?↓]) ; downwards arrow
               ;; <snip>
               ))
      (define-key iso-transl-ctl-x-8-map (kbd (car binding)) (cdr
binding)))))
=====

With the above code, I just do C-x 8 <right> to insert →.

Full code:
https://github.com/kaushalmodi/.emacs.d/blob/master/setup-files/setup-unicode.el

Hope that helps.
-- 

Kaushal Modi