Use custom delimiter for inline minted environment

The following provides a macro makemintedshortinline that takes two parameters. The language which should be used and the character you want to be the shorthand.

It is not necessary to escape the character (use | instead of |) for every character, but since it is necessary for some (for example % couldn't be input directly and you have to use % instead), it doesn't hurt to use it.

It isn't checked whether the character already has a definition when it is turned active, so you can also change the language used this way, e.g., you could use makemintedshortinline{python}| after you used it to format LaTeX code to format Python code later in your document.

documentclass{article}

usepackage{minted}

newcommandmakemintedshortinline[2]
  {%
    catcode`#2=13
    begingroup
    lccode`~=`#2
    lowercase{%
    endgroup
    protecteddef~{mintinline{#1}~}%
    }%
  }

makemintedshortinline{latex}|

begin{document}

|verb+input+|

end{document}