From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: inputting characters by hexadigit Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:16:22 +0200 Message-ID: <851w1ndao9.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216621566 25158 80.91.229.12 (21 Jul 2008 06:26:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 06:26:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Kenichi Handa , tzz@lifelogs.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, Juri Linkov , Stefan Monnier , Miles Bader To: David De La Harpe Golden Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 21 08:26:53 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 1KKorC-0007Jv-4U for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:26:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34955 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KKoqI-0002LS-WE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:25:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KKoqC-0002K7-OF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:25:48 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KKoqC-0002JO-5q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:25:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41821 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KKoqC-0002JI-0Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:25:48 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:36470) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KKoqB-0002Gj-Ov for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:25:47 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45685 helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1KKopT-0002ql-7u; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:25:03 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 243DE1C0CAAC; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:16:22 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <48841992.6030604@harpegolden.net> (David De La Harpe Golden's message of "Mon, 21 Jul 2008 06:07:30 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:101055 Archived-At: David De La Harpe Golden writes: > Stefan Monnier wrote: >> AFAIK, the main use of C-q is to insert a char by hitting the >> corresponding key, handy when that key is bound to something else than >> self-insert-command. >> >> So by using chars ? # or \ to mean something else, we get into the >> situation where the user might not know how to insert #, ?, or \ when >> those keys are bound to non-self-inserting commands. I think this is >> a serious problem. >> > > Well, that's true enough, though of course already applies to 0-7 or > 0-9A-F depending on read-quoted-char-radix But those are not likely to be rebound to electric functionality. In particular # is typically electric in cc-mode IIRC. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum