From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Yuri Khan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 21:48:23 +0600 Message-ID: References: <20150816160149.9416.80132@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <55D1043C.3030909@yandex.ru> <55D15899.2070105@cs.ucla.edu> <20150817121513.GA2634@acm.fritz.box> <55D21191.8070202@cs.ucla.edu> <20150817173551.GB2634@acm.fritz.box> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1439912944 17259 80.91.229.3 (18 Aug 2015 15:49:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 15:49:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Alan Mackenzie , Paul Eggert , Dmitry Gutov , Emacs developers To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 18 17:49:03 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZRj8H-0007W7-PC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Aug 2015 17:49:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57995 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZRj8H-0001ra-7c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Aug 2015 11:49:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45046) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZRj81-0001pY-9J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Aug 2015 11:48:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZRj7z-0003ch-Qy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Aug 2015 11:48:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-la0-x235.google.com ([2a00:1450:4010:c03::235]:35511) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZRj7z-0003cN-IT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Aug 2015 11:48:43 -0400 Original-Received: by lahi9 with SMTP id i9so101848008lah.2 for ; Tue, 18 Aug 2015 08:48:42 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Q4Lg/G+l9s1by8w87Wfn0tfvUMX0uj0o38pQbcK1TGY=; b=V0SnO1BnLw/jWTmRB/CErL9qT/rpxDVYCVhdzyg5KbHGxY09eFXTT5XXoi+ZYdXS8X 6azO195H+PFz54ZjPpvIZtDDkwcdSEq24krmTJ2TTONRyf/DxphwFA1SWI75dHjz75vG 7yTdUhi8fgHNV3ErbUqyKpPSLhUY52L2M2vF3Z4qQ/Z+l5SvOF3SiG6I/5OGNm/vwjTk PVBhkFojGI3SyubhzJXcj2Gn9GIHfoJemF2+1ZRZ1JSiJsLk3Lc3+/fBheq8lWeaP2DT Ul1fyFtmeiFYj6Ld31De5M80JY5X+XDBVri013f03h9SijWu4CN2fD0uPwi01UTqCGiA 6eTg== X-Received: by 10.152.203.134 with SMTP id kq6mr6929338lac.106.1439912922736; Tue, 18 Aug 2015 08:48:42 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.25.206.1 with HTTP; Tue, 18 Aug 2015 08:48:23 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-Google-Sender-Auth: xcs6OA6OZnfHJdJ3tcwCY27xcAI X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:4010:c03::235 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:188890 Archived-At: On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 9:24 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote: > Yuri Khan writes: > >> (As far as I am concerned, both are solved problems already. It=E2=80=99= s just >> that the solutions are not mainstream enough.) > > In X11 a whole lot of special characters are available via Compose, but > they are not easily discoverable (see > /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose for the full list). Better than that: enabling the misc:typo XKB option, along with any of the options of the lv3:* group, puts many useful characters directly on the keyboard, by adding two more character layers (in addition to normal and Shift layers). There are tools (based on xkbprint) that show the resulting layout. GNOME 2 used to make it reasonably discoverable; I don=E2=80=99t know about GNOME 3.