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: FW: Emacs non-ascii characters Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 01:38:07 +0100 Message-ID: <853blpecuo.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1132622800 18674 80.91.229.2 (22 Nov 2005 01:26:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 01:26:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jorussel@cisco.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 22 02:26:38 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EeMue-0005Uf-2r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 02:25:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EeMo6-0005I2-9z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 20:18:50 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EeMBA-0001Lm-ER for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 19:38:36 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EeMB8-0001IU-5D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 19:38:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EeMB7-0001HI-AT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 19:38:33 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EeMB7-00087D-FY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 19:38:33 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EeMB2-0001Hm-Ib; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 19:38:31 -0500 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id AFA341C12C94; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 01:38:07 +0100 (CET) Original-To: "Drew Adams" In-Reply-To: (Drew Adams's message of "Mon, 21 Nov 2005 15:27:50 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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:46420 Archived-At: "Drew Adams" writes: > Perhaps if the current locale is en_US (and other en variants, since > many use the US layout and have little need for input methods), > then C-\ > should not automatically select an input method the first time it is > hit. Then the user will be prompted and can hit C-g. This will overcome > the problem that if it is hit by accident by someone who knows nothing > about input methods, they have no way of knowing what has gone wrong. > > That sounds like a good approach, provided the initial prompt were > only asked the first time (and the setting remembered persistently, > via Customize). > > But again, I can't speak for people who use this. Would en_US users > who use `C-\' be bothered by an initial prompt? Yes. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum