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: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:24:14 -0700 Message-ID: <009001c8eb78$208c7d20$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> References: <868ww3vydn.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87myki6fqp.fsf@jurta.org> <87mykhz6tf.fsf@jurta.org> <87tzeokrku.fsf@jurta.org><87tzeogih6.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <488020A4.4060601@harpegolden.net> <873am6rb8k.fsf@jurta.org><87r69oqojm.fsf@jurta.org> <48841992.6030604@harpegolden.net> <877ibfipbg.fsf@jurta.org><85bq0rasjd.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <4884F33D.1060905@harpegolden.net><854p6jarz8.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> 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 1216675495 9654 80.91.229.12 (21 Jul 2008 21:24:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:24:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: david@harpegolden.net, tzz@lifelogs.com, handa@m17n.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, juri@jurta.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, cloos@jhcloos.com, miles@gnu.org To: , "'David Kastrup'" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 21 23:25:42 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 1KL2t3-0003Sd-7j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:25:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47707 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KL2s9-0001oe-Vx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:24:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KL2s5-0001oU-N1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:24:41 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KL2s4-0001o5-Ck for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:24:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50527 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KL2s4-0001o2-5V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:24:40 -0400 Original-Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]:30341) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KL2rs-0005ro-SR; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:24:29 -0400 Original-Received: from rgmgw2.us.oracle.com (rgmgw2.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.111]) by rgminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id m6LLOPhx010001; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:24:25 -0600 Original-Received: from acsmt358.oracle.com (acsmt358.oracle.com [141.146.40.158]) by rgmgw2.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.2.4) with ESMTP id m6KMoh27004035; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:24:24 -0600 Original-Received: from inet-141-146-46-1.oracle.com by acsmt353.oracle.com with ESMTP id 10951950971216675452; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:24:12 -0700 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/130.35.178.194) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:24:12 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 Thread-Index: Acjrda3SGtVIfCoMQBWhQUIq0J0eMgAAcMMQ 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:101130 Archived-At: > C-M-q is a terrible keybinding to choose, it tends to mean "fill > current defun" in whatever language specific mode you are in; and is > used in many modes making it quite pointless to use it for inserting > characters by hex. Inserting chars. by hex is also not the most > common thing to have, so having a single chord for it seems silly. I was going to stay quiet on this topic, but I agree. Those are both good arguments: (1) don't conflict with defun filling, (2) don't waste key chords.