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: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:03:19 +0200 Message-ID: <85abgaao9k.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> <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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216677819 16896 80.91.229.12 (21 Jul 2008 22:03:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:03:39 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 22 00:04:28 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 1KL3UV-0007A1-36 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:04:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50263 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KL3Tb-0007mh-Vg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:03:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KL3TX-0007mH-V4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:03:23 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KL3TW-0007lr-DF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:03:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50148 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KL3TW-0007lm-27 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:03:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-08.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.48]:60194) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KL3TV-0002lB-GY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:03:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-05-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-05-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.17]) by mail-in-08.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E675927AC8B for ; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:03:19 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-in-03.arcor-online.net (mail-in-03.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.43]) by mail-in-05-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6FB72DA961 for ; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:03:19 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-050-208.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.50.208]) by mail-in-03.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD5503425E3 for ; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:03:19 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 7A6531C1346B; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:03:19 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: ("Johan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bockg=E5rd=22's?= message of "Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:49:34 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.93.3/7770/Mon Jul 21 21:30:47 2008 on mail-in-03.arcor-online.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:101135 Archived-At: bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan Bockg=E5rd) writes: > Miles Bader writes: > >> 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... > > C-q with a negative prefix argument currently does nothing... C-- C-u C-u C-q e3 RET for base 16 entry? Not the most pretty thing in sight, but probably easier to type than the equivalent C-- 16 C-q e3 RET. --=20 David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum