From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: inputting characters by hexadigit Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 01:17:29 +0900 Message-ID: <87vdz3p3om.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216397391 23840 80.91.229.12 (18 Jul 2008 16:09:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:09:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, tzz@lifelogs.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, Kenichi Handa , David De La Harpe Golden To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 18 18:10:38 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 1KJsXK-0004Vp-Pm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:10:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46208 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KJsWR-0001AE-RY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:09:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KJsQW-0004mG-TY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:03:25 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KJsQU-0004jD-Oa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:03:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59940 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KJsQU-0004il-Fq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:03:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mtps02.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]:35655) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KJsQP-0007DR-AE; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:03:17 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mtps02.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4F507FFC; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 01:03:06 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1E0881A25C3; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 01:17:29 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM ?bug? under XEmacs 21.5.21 (x86_64-unknown-linux) 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:100947 Archived-At: Miles Bader writes: > David De La Harpe Golden writes: > >> I once proposed C-q 8 and C-9 to change read-quoted-char-radix to 10 > >> and 16 temporarily so that one can type C-q 9 c 0 RET to input > >> U+00C0. I still think it's very convenient. > > > > Well, convenient, but maybe supporting emacs lisp hex > > literal syntax might be more memorable? e.g. C-q #x2618 > > Yes, that sounds like a good syntax to me -- I think it's important that > it be easy to remember, because many people will use it only > occasionally. Agreed, but how about trying the syntax everybody actually uses: `C-q U+00C0'? Are there situations where C-q U really needs to insert a U?