From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: inputting characters by hexadigit Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:01:04 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <86ej5keovj.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <868ww3vydn.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87tzeokrku.fsf@jurta.org> <87tzeogih6.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <488020A4.4060601@harpegolden.net> <873am6rb8k.fsf@jurta.org> <87r69oqojm.fsf@jurta.org> <006a01c8ec04$27f3c2d0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216817897 1430 80.91.229.12 (23 Jul 2008 12:58:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:58:17 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 23 14:59:05 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 1KLdvc-0003Z5-Iy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:58:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41264 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KLduj-00060A-Ab for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:57:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KLdtl-0004uZ-JX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:56:53 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KLdth-0004oy-LX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:56:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=42241 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KLdth-0004oe-An for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:56:49 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:52143 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KLdtg-0001Rh-PN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:56:49 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KLdtZ-0006Ni-GZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:56:41 +0000 Original-Received: from 38.98.147.130 ([38.98.147.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:56:41 +0000 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:56:41 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.98.147.130 X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:YtnXMerRLfAeqta2EkawDWNeqBg= 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:101307 Archived-At: On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:06:36 -0700 "Drew Adams" wrote: DA> This thread got off the ground because some thought that using an input method DA> could be too heavy for inputting Unicode chars. OK, keep looking for a better DA> (non "input method") input method, if you must. But please stay away from key DA> chords and existing key bindings. I don't understand why we don't just provide an interactive function and let the users pick the keybinding they like. IMHO this is completely useless for many users (considering input methods exist for particular languages and we've talked about stacking multiple input methods), and essential for much fewer people (who need to enter arbitrary Unicode characters by number). Ted