From: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@online.de>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: zap-to-char too raw, or document
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 19:36:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E231D82.9090603@online.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2tyalw3xi.fsf@igel.home>
Am 17.07.2011 13:18, schrieb Andreas Schwab:
> Andreas Röhler<andreas.roehler@online.de> writes:
>
>>> When I answer a y/n style question, I would not want to have a
>>> latin-1-postfix input method waiting in order to figure out whether I
>>> want to adorn my n with a ~ in order to get ñ.
>>>
>>
>> Where is the problem? User specifying a simple char will not notice the
>> extended capability.
>
> How do you know the user doesn't want to input ñ as n~?
>
> Andreas.
>
IIUC its upon changing the API so it would recognise an prefix-argument
like C-u.
Calling that a " y/n style question" already has been misleading IMHO.
Andreas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-17 17:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-14 15:28 bug#1580: zap-to-char too raw, or document jidanni
2011-07-10 14:26 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-16 18:21 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-16 18:21 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-17 0:23 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-07-17 8:01 ` David Kastrup
2011-07-17 9:34 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-07-17 11:18 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-07-17 17:36 ` Andreas Röhler [this message]
2011-07-18 13:39 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-07-17 0:23 ` bug#1580: " Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-07-20 15:02 ` Chong Yidong
2011-07-20 20:09 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-21 16:19 ` Chong Yidong
2011-07-21 19:16 ` Glenn Morris
2011-07-31 15:33 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-04-10 2:24 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-04-10 2:24 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-31 15:33 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-21 19:16 ` Glenn Morris
2011-07-10 19:37 ` jidanni
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