From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: C-x 8 shorthands for =?utf-8?Q?=E2=89=A4?= and =?utf-8?Q?=E2=89=A5?= Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 10:53:26 -0400 Message-ID: References: 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 1431356024 25756 80.91.229.3 (11 May 2015 14:53:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 14:53:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Kaushal Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 11 16:53:37 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 1Yrp5M-00048u-6T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 May 2015 16:53:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37985 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yrp5L-0000w3-O0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 May 2015 10:53:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36512) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yrp5H-0000vu-Rc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 May 2015 10:53:32 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yrp5E-0007lL-DU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 May 2015 10:53:31 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:38630) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yrp5E-0007lH-9r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 May 2015 10:53:28 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AoILAGvvdVRFpYts/2dsb2JhbAA3gVODDp4OAVKBCIF2AQUjMyMQCxoCGA4CAhQYDSSiPIdogS+KdA0FEAgCAgIDDgkBAgECgiFYRQOCWoEWBKNjhFg X-IPAS-Result: AoILAGvvdVRFpYts/2dsb2JhbAA3gVODDp4OAVKBCIF2AQUjMyMQCxoCGA4CAhQYDSSiPIdogS+KdA0FEAgCAgIDDgkBAgECgiFYRQOCWoEWBKNjhFg X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.11,557,1422939600"; d="scan'208";a="119168305" Original-Received: from 69-165-139-108.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.165.139.108]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 11 May 2015 10:53:29 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 940161E12; Mon, 11 May 2015 10:53:26 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Kaushal's message of "Mon, 11 May 2015 13:29:40 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 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:186404 Archived-At: >> ("_<" . [?=E2=89=A4]) >> ("_>" . [?=E2=89=A5]) >> Can the bindings be changed to these: >> ("<=3D" . [?=E2=89=A4]) >> (">=3D" . [?=E2=89=A5]) FWIW, I agree. > ">" is already bound to =C2=BB > "<" is already boudn to =C2=AB ">>" and "<<" would seem to be better choices. The shorter `C-x <' used so far made sense when we restricted C-x 8 to something like Latin-1, but if we want to extend coverage, I don't think we can afford such short bindings. Stefan