From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Pogonyshev Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: FW: Emacs non-ascii characters Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 00:27:17 +0200 Message-ID: <200511220027.18019.pogonyshev@gmx.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1132612706 25375 80.91.229.2 (21 Nov 2005 22:38:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 22:38:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jorussel@cisco.com, Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 21 23:38:21 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EeKHf-0007Sh-HD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 23:37:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EeKF2-0003L4-Bp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 17:34:28 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EeK56-0005AA-GV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 17:24:12 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EeK52-00052L-FN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 17:24:11 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EeK51-00051J-V7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 17:24:08 -0500 Original-Received: from [213.165.64.20] (helo=mail.gmx.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EeK51-0002M4-Km for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 17:24:08 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 21 Nov 2005 22:24:05 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (EHLO [194.158.218.198]) [194.158.218.198] by mail.gmx.net (mp017) with SMTP; 21 Nov 2005 23:24:05 +0100 X-Authenticated: #16844820 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:46411 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: "Drew Adams" > > Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 11:26:16 -0800 > > Cc: John Russell > > > > This makes me wonder if `C-\' isn't a bad binding for such a command. Should > > toggling the input method be on a key binding that is easy to hit by > > mistake? > > ``Easy to hit by mistake''? IMHO, no key combination is so _hard_ to > hit by mistake as C-\. On some non-US keyboards it's almost > impossible to hit by mistake, since it requires to use the AltGr key. > > I do use input methods a lot, and yet I have never hit that key combo > by mistake until now. On some keyboards (like mine) the `\' key is right next to the Backspace key, which makes `C-\' very close to `C-Backspace'. That said, I always use `M-Backspace' and I don't think it is a good idea to change such a commonly-used shortcut as `C-\' at all. Paul