From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Werner LEMBERG Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Insert Euro symbol Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 14:09:55 +0200 (CEST) Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <20020506.140955.21901330.wl@gnu.org> References: <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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1020688854 8228 127.0.0.1 (6 May 2002 12:40:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 12:40:54 +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 174hnS-00028b-00 for ; Mon, 06 May 2002 14:40:54 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 174hub-0005w0-00 for ; Mon, 06 May 2002 14:48:18 +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 174hYU-00006n-00; Mon, 06 May 2002 08:25:26 -0400 Original-Received: from moutvdom01.kundenserver.de ([195.20.224.200]) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 174hWA-0008EV-00; Mon, 06 May 2002 08:23:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [172.19.20.61] (helo=mrvdomng0.kundenserver.de) by moutvdom01.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 174hW8-0005Uv-00; Mon, 6 May 2002 14:23:00 +0200 Original-Received: from [80.129.65.126] (helo=orion.local) by mrvdomng0.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #2) id 174hW6-0007tm-00; Mon, 06 May 2002 14:22:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orion.local (8.11.6/8.11.6/SuSE Linux 0.5) with ESMTP id g46C9ts30883; Mon, 6 May 2002 14:09:55 +0200 Original-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Mew version 3.0.55 on Emacs 21.2.50.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) 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:3628 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:3628 > > 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. But the combinations suggested by Richard will occur way too often. > For example, how about the @ character. As long as @ @ inserts an @ > sign, it wouldn't be difficult for people to use.) Typing @ isnt' convenient at all for me due to its location on the keyboard. Werner