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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: "Kévin Le Gouguec" <kevin.legouguec@gmail.com>
Cc: Tor Kringeland <tor.kringeland@ntnu.no>, 55668@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#55668: Extending the `C-x 8' map to include macrons
Date: Fri, 27 May 2022 12:56:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a6b38cr1.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ilprv7f6.fsf@gmail.com> ("Kévin Le Gouguec"'s message of "Fri, 27 May 2022 08:03:25 +0200")

Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legouguec@gmail.com> writes:

>>From the peanut gallery (I don't use macrons much in my writing, so
> please disregard if not helpful): if we are going to displace an
> existing binding, why not `C-x 8 ='?  It's currently bound to ¯
> (MACRON), and the = prefix is reminiscent of TeX, where \=o yields ō
> (which is usable right now with the TeX input method).

I think doing that might make sense.  And `C-x 8 = =' would insert ¯, so
it wouldn't be very disruptive for people.

(While I could see that some people would be annoyed by changing `C-x 8
-' to `C-x 8 - -'.)

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no





  reply	other threads:[~2022-05-27 10:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-27  1:03 bug#55668: Extending the `C-x 8' map to include macrons Tor Kringeland
2022-05-27  5:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-27  6:03 ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2022-05-27 10:56   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2022-05-27 12:49   ` Tor Kringeland
2022-05-27 13:16     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-27 13:40       ` Tor Kringeland
2022-05-27 15:42         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-28  1:46           ` Phil Sainty
2022-06-06  9:53             ` Robert Pluim

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