Re: inputting characters by hexadigit

[David De La Harpe Golden <david@harpegolden.net>]

David Kastrup wrote:
> David De La Harpe Golden <david@harpegolden.net> writes:
> 
>> David Kastrup wrote:
>>
>>> Why not C-M-q 3b5 RET ?  That one is not taken in general, it seems?
>>>
>> C-M-q == indent-pp-sexp ...
> 
> Hm?
> 
> indent-pp-sexp is not on any key
> 
> GNU Emacs 23.0.60.3 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.9) of
> 2008-06-01 on lola
> 
> So if this has changed as a global binding, it must have been rather
> recently and thus should not be cast into stone.

Hmm. actually, turns out it's "only" bound in the various lisps and
other programming languages major modes (including the scratch buffer
and c-mode, btw), so you're right that it's not a _true_ global binding
(I just spend most of my emacs time in such modes...).  But it's very
long-standing as "indent expression" AFAIK, was in emacs 19.

It's  one of those "pseudo global" bindings where the keypress does a
conceptually similar thing in many modes - in lisp mode,
indent-pp-sexp, in c mode, c-indent-exp, in perl mode, perl-indent-exp,
and so on.