From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: inputting characters by hexadigit Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:54:34 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87fxq1bkyp.fsf@jurta.org> 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216768258 32126 80.91.229.12 (22 Jul 2008 23:10:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:10:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: david@harpegolden.net, lekktu@gmail.com, tzz@lifelogs.com, Kenichi Handa , emacs-devel@gnu.org, Miles Bader To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 23 01:11:46 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 1KLR1F-0003DV-5F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:11:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40679 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KLR0L-0002nf-Rm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:10:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KLQy7-0001XL-0F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:08:31 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KLQy6-0001WY-3T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:08:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58754 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KLQy5-0001WU-R6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:08:29 -0400 Original-Received: from relay01.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.200]:3032) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KLQy1-0004dt-1R; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:08:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay01.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1KLQxv-000Fsb-7H; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:08:20 +0300 In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:16:26 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-Scanner-Signature: 1678f860418e8694a064f05d5e21ded6 X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: juri@jurta.org X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Header: Trusted X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 4414 [July 23 2008] X-SpamTest-Info: {received from trusted relay: common white list} X-SpamTest-Info: {HEADERS: header Content-Type found without required header Content-Transfer-Encoding} X-SpamTest-Method: white ip list X-SpamTest-Rate: 10 X-SpamTest-Status: Trusted X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: trusted X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0278], KAS30/Release X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.8-5.1 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.3) 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:101259 Archived-At: >> It seems that C-c 8 X ... RET is the easiest to type. > > I think C-c 8 is reserved already, but indeed C-x 8 might be a very good > choice, since it's already used to enter other non-ascii chars. > I think it would make a lot of sense to extend it with other > combinations for various Unicode chars, as well as hex-codes for > arbitrary chars. It seems C-x 8 is a good key prefix for this thing, and the simplest change we could make now is to bind `C-x 8 RET' to `ucs-insert'. Or maybe also bind a new key to the `C-x RET' prefix, e.g. bind `C-x RET C-q' to `ucs-insert'. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/