From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Feature suggestion Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2012 16:33:58 -0400 Message-ID: References: <838vg71s69.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1338582849 23537 80.91.229.3 (1 Jun 2012 20:34:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 20:34:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 01 22:34:08 2012 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 1SaYXr-0001j2-Qk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Jun 2012 22:34:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45929 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SaYXr-0001kj-KT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Jun 2012 16:34:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:34158) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SaYXp-0001k5-3t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jun 2012 16:34:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SaYXn-00030o-KN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jun 2012 16:34:00 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:57237) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SaYXn-00030j-Gt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jun 2012 16:33:59 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SaYXm-0001cp-Cb; Fri, 01 Jun 2012 16:33:58 -0400 In-reply-to: <838vg71s69.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Fri, 01 Jun 2012 09:07:26 +0300) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 208.118.235.10 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:150719 Archived-At: Type "C-x 8 RET" followed by the hexadecimal code of the character (shown by "C-u C-x ="), and Bob's your uncle. Would mentioning that in the text do the job? Yes, it would. That is an obscure command, and I would not know what search string to use to find it with apropos. I think there is a way to enter characters by their long names, too, but I don't recall what it is. It would be good to mention that method too. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call