From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: .emacs poser Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 07:17:10 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3f66b92c-abdc-4a2b-bffe-9d695427c3d2@default> 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 1387293475 24768 80.91.229.3 (17 Dec 2013 15:17:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 15:17:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Yuri Khan , "B. T. Raven" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 17 16:17:56 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1VswPC-0000Ew-4u for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Dec 2013 16:17:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33771 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VswPB-0008Kj-LG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Dec 2013 10:17:53 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54160) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VswOj-00080b-J2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Dec 2013 10:17:34 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VswOa-0006Ec-TL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Dec 2013 10:17:25 -0500 Original-Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:36553) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VswOa-0006Do-N3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Dec 2013 10:17:16 -0500 Original-Received: from acsinet21.oracle.com (acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237]) by aserp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1) with ESMTP id rBHFHD6v030939 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 17 Dec 2013 15:17:14 GMT Original-Received: from aserz7021.oracle.com (aserz7021.oracle.com [141.146.126.230]) by acsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id rBHFHBd2015432 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 17 Dec 2013 15:17:13 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0006.oracle.com (abhmp0006.oracle.com [141.146.116.12]) by aserz7021.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id rBHFHBxh015423; Tue, 17 Dec 2013 15:17:11 GMT In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.8 (707110) [OL 12.0.6680.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 141.146.126.69 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:95049 Archived-At: > > In my emacs I have these global-set-key forms: >=20 > IMO you=E2=80=99re doing it wrong, by solving the general problem of ente= ring > special character for a specific case of Emacs. There is no wrong or right way here. Does your keyboard have a key that inserts the character `2' (yes)? Is dedicating that key sequence to inserting that one character wasteful or "doing it wrong"? Binding a command that inserts a commonly used character to a key can be quite handy, regardless of whether there is also a general way to insert any character. You *could* insert character `2' using `C-x 8 RET digit two' each time, but why bother? Think of binding such keys as one way to extend your keyboard, or even to change it from one language to another, or...