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: defcustom :type to use for a key sequence? Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 09:31:52 +0100 Message-ID: <85mziudf5z.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <43A16BDF.6020608@student.lu.se> <43A1943C.804@student.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1135155571 29189 80.91.229.2 (21 Dec 2005 08:59:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 08:59:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, "Kim F. Storm" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 21 09:59:29 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EozoI-0005ww-DP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 09:58:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EozpD-0008Or-7K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 03:59:55 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EozPL-0000OI-V9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 03:33:12 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EozPK-0000Ns-IZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 03:33:11 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EozPJ-0000Nd-CY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 03:33:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EozSZ-0007Hx-TG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 03:36:31 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EozMG-0001Cm-5F; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 03:30:00 -0500 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 8079F1C4F93D; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 09:31:52 +0100 (CET) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard M. Stallman's message of "Tue, 20 Dec 2005 21:58:52 -0500") 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:48153 Archived-At: "Richard M. Stallman" writes: > With that change, your C-q replacement would have no disadvantages > and might as well be installed. But it does have a drawback as a > solution to this problem: it isn't self-evident. It would be > something you just have to know. That is not ideal. How about S-C-q be an event-quote character in general? Or at least in contexts like Lisp buffers? One can't type it on a tty, but since you can't type interesting events on a tty anyway, this would not be a drawback. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum