From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: FW: Emacs non-ascii characters Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 23:20:19 +0000 Message-ID: <43825633.5040403@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1132615450 924 80.91.229.2 (21 Nov 2005 23:24:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 23:24:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jorussel@cisco.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 22 00:24:05 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EeL0F-0004u2-Me for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 00:23:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EeL0E-0006gt-KS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 18:23:14 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EeKxr-0005Xl-Hl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 18:20:47 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EeKxo-0005Vw-7t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 18:20:46 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EeKxn-0005Vl-2L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 18:20:43 -0500 Original-Received: from [217.207.198.106] (helo=exchange.integrasp.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EeKxm-0005It-UO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 18:20:43 -0500 Original-Received: from ASSP-nospam (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by exchange.integrasp.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id RFBH0C9C; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 23:15:58 -0000 Original-Received: from 83.67.23.108 ([83.67.23.108] helo=[10.0.0.27]) by ASSP-nospam ; 21 Nov 05 23:15:56 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: Drew Adams In-Reply-To: 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:46417 Archived-At: Drew Adams wrote: >I have only standard, US PC keyboards, probably the most common keyboards >there are currently. `C-\' is very easy to hit by mistake: `\' is just above >the Enter key and just to the right of `]'. There is nothing hard about >hitting `\', and one could easily hit `C-\' when trying to hit `C-]' >(abort-recursive-edit). > > Perhaps if the current locale is en_US (and other en variants, since many use the US layout and have little need for input methods), then C-\ should not automatically select an input method the first time it is hit. Then the user will be prompted and can hit C-g. This will overcome the problem that if it is hit by accident by someone who knows nothing about input methods, they have no way of knowing what has gone wrong.