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: Multi-line input Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 07:06:53 -0500 Message-ID: References: <<87fvds2r5i.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87zjbokx0t.fsf@mail.linkov.net>> <<546E1845.2010301@dancol.org> <87oarjklgc.fsf_-_@mail.linkov.net> > <> <94e0230f-c396-4266-8ada-9816d8118946@default> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417867671 9213 80.91.229.3 (6 Dec 2014 12:07:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2014 12:07:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, juri@linkov.net To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 06 13:07:46 2014 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 1XxE9J-0006AC-Ei for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 13:07:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54169 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxE9I-0003DK-HG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 07:07:44 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55480) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxE8Y-0002co-2K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 07:06:58 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxE8V-0001sM-2n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 07:06:57 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:48054) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxE8V-0001sI-0h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 07:06:55 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxE8T-0002OE-U9; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 07:06:54 -0500 In-reply-to: <94e0230f-c396-4266-8ada-9816d8118946@default> (message from Drew Adams on Fri, 5 Dec 2014 15:02:19 -0800 (PST)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x 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:179162 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > On a graphics window, C-M and RET can be distinguished. > > Maybe it is possible to make C-q C-m insert ^M and make > > C-q RET insert newline. > Huh? Why a newline? Users associate Return with a newline, so they will find this natural. Control J *is* a newline char. You know that, and I know that, but most users don't know that. > You can distinguish the key `C-m' from the key `', > but you cannot distinguish the character Control M from > the character CR (carriage return) - by definition. That's equivalent to what I said. -- 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.