From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: inputting characters by hexadigit Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:54:20 -0700 Message-ID: <007c01c8ec1b$96c25750$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> References: <868ww3vydn.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87tzeokrku.fsf@jurta.org><87tzeogih6.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <488020A4.4060601@harpegolden.net> <873am6rb8k.fsf@jurta.org><87r69oqojm.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216748546 30204 80.91.229.12 (22 Jul 2008 17:42:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:42:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: david@harpegolden.net, lekktu@gmail.com, tzz@lifelogs.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, juri@jurta.org, 'Miles Bader' To: "'Stefan Monnier'" , "'Kenichi Handa'" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 22 19:43:14 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KLLs6-0006dG-Ar for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:41:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49138 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KLLrD-000450-4s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:41:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KLLr8-00042z-3u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:40:58 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KLLr6-00040j-5t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:40:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=47968 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KLLr6-00040a-3Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:40:56 -0400 Original-Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]:46630) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KLLqz-0005g2-6y; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:40:49 -0400 Original-Received: from rgmgw1.us.oracle.com (rgmgw1.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.110]) by rgminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id m6MHV8ig003276; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:40:44 -0600 Original-Received: from acsmt353.oracle.com (acsmt353.oracle.com [141.146.40.153]) by rgmgw1.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.2.4) with ESMTP id m6M7la53012699; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:54:35 -0600 Original-Received: from inet-141-146-46-1.oracle.com by acsmt353.oracle.com with ESMTP id 10971244661216745658; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:54:18 -0700 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/24.5.171.11) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:54:18 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 Thread-Index: AcjsFoCJVNNpmxZBR5aGVRqk9tqIUQAAdYIQ X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:101233 Archived-At: > C-x 8 might be a very good choice, since it's already used to > enter other non-ascii chars. I think it would make a lot of > sense to extend it with other combinations for various Unicode > chars, as well as hex-codes for arbitrary chars. This sounds like a good idea to me. It would of course require some changes to the doc - e.g. the Emacs manual, node Unibyte Mode, which describes this (as being for Latin-1 only). (I also suggest adding some mention of `iso-transl-ctl-x-8-map' to the Elisp manual.)