From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: inputting characters by hexadigit Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:38:59 +0200 Message-ID: <4884F3E3.8090403@gmail.com> References: <868ww3vydn.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87myki6fqp.fsf@jurta.org> <87mykhz6tf.fsf@jurta.org> <87tzeokrku.fsf@jurta.org> <87tzeogih6.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <488020A4.4060601@harpegolden.net> <873am6rb8k.fsf@jurta.org> <87r69oqojm.fsf@jurta.org> <48841992.6030604@harpegolden.net> <877ibfipbg.fsf@jurta.org> <87ej5nhtph.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216672786 32687 80.91.229.12 (21 Jul 2008 20:39:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:39:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: David De La Harpe Golden , tzz@lifelogs.com, Kenichi Handa , emacs-devel@gnu.org, Juri Linkov , Stefan Monnier , James Cloos To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 21 22:40:34 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KL2BE-0003tn-Bi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:40:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55176 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KL2AL-0005yx-9C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:39:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KL2AF-0005wV-Vp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:39:24 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KL2AE-0005uy-Cs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:39:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58932 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KL2AE-0005uj-6t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:39:22 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]:43921) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KL2A9-0000At-UX; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:39:18 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-59.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.59]:65379 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1KL2A7-0000KE-8O; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:39:15 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <87ej5nhtph.fsf@catnip.gol.com> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080721-0, 2008-07-21), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.145.59 X-ACL-Warn: Too high rate of unknown addresses received from you X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1KL2A7-0000KE-8O. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1KL2A7-0000KE-8O c46bf497902846c43a614c82adc9c7ab X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) 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:101122 Archived-At: Miles Bader wrote: > Stefan Monnier writes: >> If we consider that C-q should stick to "insert ", then >> one way to still use C-q + is to use non-chars in , >> e.g. use the meta modifier. > > While that's a nice goal, I'm not sure the alternatives to C-q + MAGIC > are any better... > > It seems to me that the having a single magic character would be > reasonable, it's having 27 different magic characters that starts to get > annoying. > > So how about "#" as the single magic char, and have "##" to insert a # > character? I am not sure if I misunderstand you, but having a printable character would IMO be very disturbing since Emacs can be used for so many things. How about C-M-q as the magig key?