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: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:05:27 +0200 Message-ID: <48872C97.6020505@gmail.com> References: <868ww3vydn.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87tzeokrku.fsf@jurta.org> <87tzeogih6.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <488020A4.4060601@harpegolden.net> <873am6rb8k.fsf@jurta.org> <87r69oqojm.fsf@jurta.org> <006a01c8ec04$27f3c2d0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> <86ej5keovj.fsf@lifelogs.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 1216818405 3445 80.91.229.12 (23 Jul 2008 13:06:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:06:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ted Zlatanov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 23 15:07:33 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 1KLe3m-0006q3-Jo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:07:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42640 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KLe2t-0002pk-AM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:06:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KLe2G-0002VX-Fr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:05:40 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KLe2D-0002UG-VL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:05:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=38966 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KLe2D-0002U5-NS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:05:37 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]:44261) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KLe2A-0002jd-F7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:05:35 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-151-176.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.151.176]:60373 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1KLe28-00072g-72; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:05:32 +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: <86ej5keovj.fsf@lifelogs.com> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080723-0, 2008-07-23), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.151.176 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1KLe28-00072g-72. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1KLe28-00072g-72 fc1808e5bb7d13b4c7ee1f0f249fbe24 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:101308 Archived-At: Ted Zlatanov wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:06:36 -0700 "Drew Adams" wrote: > > DA> This thread got off the ground because some thought that using an input method > DA> could be too heavy for inputting Unicode chars. OK, keep looking for a better > DA> (non "input method") input method, if you must. But please stay away from key > DA> chords and existing key bindings. > > I don't understand why we don't just provide an interactive function and > let the users pick the keybinding they like. IMHO this is completely > useless for many users (considering input methods exist for particular > languages and we've talked about stacking multiple input methods), and > essential for much fewer people (who need to enter arbitrary Unicode > characters by number). Seems like a good suggestion to me if combined with Juri's latest suggestion.