From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?B?QW5kcmVhcyBSw7ZobGVy?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: zap-to-char too raw, or document Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 19:36:02 +0200 Message-ID: <4E231D82.9090603@online.de> References: <87myeydbea.fsf@jidanni.org> <87ipr1sqkm.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87mxgdwd1u.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <4E22AC9C.6060404@online.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1310924189 32703 80.91.229.12 (17 Jul 2011 17:36:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 17:36:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 17 19:36:25 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QiVGT-0002cd-Bt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 19:36:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33175 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QiVGS-0008Dg-DV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 13:36:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:45453) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QiVGB-0008DL-Ea for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 13:36:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QiVG9-0002Tv-M1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 13:36:07 -0400 Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.8]:63592) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QiVG9-0002Tj-3E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 13:36:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.178.27] (brln-4dbc6ccd.pool.mediaWays.net [77.188.108.205]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mreu1) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0M4miX-1Rgtoc1Th7-00yufk; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 19:36:03 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 SUSE/3.1.11 Thunderbird/3.1.11 In-Reply-To: X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:4GeWreHzihUA7PIt/pyaim3/xBUvMsapXH101EUVdzx aIc5J04iJ8v0SZEFBgHfB89OG0R2UpA9LcAlLHy4dyMEMHiujA XHAkgf9ouyT6FTEm+VpCaa+hfp/kkInNnhBYZWpXJxmxn+2bdV wXiP6er3yLfN9SepnxSifYcTtMU0GL3Yll0u0KZnxjM+/ws0uC QKG1vPBxhsy0DwEGqBnw4WT4B9x5ZqwHzmrT0iHnG4= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 212.227.17.8 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:142076 Archived-At: Am 17.07.2011 13:18, schrieb Andreas Schwab: > Andreas Röhler writes: > >>> When I answer a y/n style question, I would not want to have a >>> latin-1-postfix input method waiting in order to figure out whether I >>> want to adorn my n with a ~ in order to get ñ. >>> >> >> Where is the problem? User specifying a simple char will not notice the >> extended capability. > > How do you know the user doesn't want to input ñ as n~? > > Andreas. > IIUC its upon changing the API so it would recognise an prefix-argument like C-u. Calling that a " y/n style question" already has been misleading IMHO. Andreas