From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Insert Euro symbol Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 11:54:14 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200205031825.g43IPUb00711@aztec.santafe.edu> <200205041502.g44F2VW01267@aztec.santafe.edu> <20020505.083941.77253523.wl@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1020690722 11689 127.0.0.1 (6 May 2002 13:12:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 13:12:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, ats@acm.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 174iHZ-000329-00 for ; Mon, 06 May 2002 15:12:01 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 174iOj-0006cQ-00 for ; Mon, 06 May 2002 15:19:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 174hOo-0007ne-00; Mon, 06 May 2002 08:15:26 -0400 Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de ([129.217.4.42]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 174fCH-0007sf-00; Mon, 06 May 2002 05:54:21 -0400 Original-Received: from lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lothlorien [129.217.19.67]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id g469sJb24213; Mon, 6 May 2002 11:54:19 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.19.80]) by lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de id LAA05785; Mon, 6 May 2002 11:54:14 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix, from userid 6104) id 40EFA3AF1C; Mon, 6 May 2002 11:54:14 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Werner LEMBERG In-Reply-To: <20020505.083941.77253523.wl@gnu.org> (Werner LEMBERG's message of "Sun, 05 May 2002 08:39:41 +0200 (CEST)") Original-Lines: 24 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.2.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:3631 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:3631 Werner LEMBERG writes: >> I started writing changes to add ways to enter some additional >> characters, shown below. But I have doubts about whether these >> sequences are good ones. They might be inconvenient. > > A lot of them are inconvenient IMHO since they occur very frequently > e.g. in writing emails. What do you think about having sequences of > three characters? The first one is a kind of escape character, say, > `C-.', followed by your two-character sequences (or a one-character > sequence if that makes sense). I think if the input method makes doubled characters insert themselves, there is not much of a problem. For example, even if there were a lot of sequences involving SPC, users could easily type SPC SPC to insert a "real" space character. (Of course, SPC was chosen as an extreme example. We want to stay away from SPC. But less-often used nonletters would be okay. For example, how about the @ character. As long as @ @ inserts an @ sign, it wouldn't be difficult for people to use.) kai -- Silence is foo!