From: Kaushal <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>,
Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com>,
Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: C-x 8 shorthands for ≤ and ≥
Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 10:14:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFyQvY2_heUab5H2RV54NTfk-iJj43q-++XaeYd=tMu1ipVF9Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwviobywyom.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
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In reply to Drew's email that seems to have started by mistake in a new
thread
> And I'm wondering why we need to provide such "shortcuts". It is
> *trivial* for anyone to bind keys to insert any chars one uses often.
> I don't see how we're doing anyone any favors by this.
>
> What's so special about any particular set of Unicode chars that we
> should bother to offer a predefined set of bindings for them (even if
> turning on that set is optional)? Now we're even down to looking to
> bind ≫ or »? How silly is that? (Well, I'm sure those chars are
> very useful for some people - but those who need 'em can bind 'em.)
>
> Where's the beef?
As I mentioned in the first email, I can easily bind those to what I want.
I was motivated to email about this because I found the binding "_<" for ≤
a bit unnatural. In all the coding languages I used, ≤ was always
represented as "<=" and so thought that that binding would make more sense.
Then I realized that "<" was already taken for the « and so we could not
have the "<=" binding.
And then the thread evolved as you see.
As Stefan mentioned, the "<" binding was added at the time when probably
the other unicode characters were probably not popular.
So this was just a little gesture to "upgrade" the out-of-box bindings for
"C-x 8" since we are already setting a few default bindings for some
unicode characters.
I am fine with this discussion ending here and I will go back to using a
little hydra with a bunch of unicode chars I use frequently.
--
Kaushal Modi
On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 6:13 PM, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
wrote:
> > I disagree. I use « and » from time to time, and I /never/ wanted to
> > use ≪ or ≫.
>
> FWIW I'm in the same situation.
>
>
> Stefan
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-12 14:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-11 13:22 C-x 8 shorthands for ≤ and ≥ Kaushal
2015-05-11 13:29 ` Kaushal
2015-05-11 14:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-05-11 14:57 ` Kaushal
2015-05-11 15:08 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-05-11 15:24 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-05-11 15:40 ` Yuri Khan
2015-05-11 15:46 ` Kaushal
2015-05-11 16:27 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-05-11 16:34 ` Rasmus
2015-05-11 16:54 ` Kaushal
2015-05-11 20:34 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-05-11 22:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-05-11 22:33 ` C-x 8 shorthands for = and = Drew Adams
2015-05-12 14:14 ` Kaushal [this message]
2015-05-12 15:58 ` C-x 8 shorthands for ≤ and ≥ Kaushal
2015-05-11 18:26 ` Werner LEMBERG
2015-05-11 19:41 ` Kaushal
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