From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 20499@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20499: [PROPOSED PATCH] C-x 8 shorthands for curved quotes, Euro, etc.
Date: Mon, 04 May 2015 09:11:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55479A45.60508@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <836188tobq.fsf@gnu.org>
On 05/04/2015 07:22 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Shouldn't we prefer input methods instead?
Typically yes, but for common characters it's better to have a standard
way to input them in any context. The exact set of such characters is
of course debatable (and you could easily talk me out of the
more-obscure characters proposed), but quotes, dashes, and the Euro are
pretty basic to ordinary English text.
Also, Emacs has no English input method, which means Emacs users
currently have trouble writing good English text outside the ASCII
character set. I suppose we could add such a method, but that would
require more user training than the proposed approach. Anyway, Emacs is
natively English and support for basic English text should be available
everywhere.
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Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-04 1:13 bug#20499: [PROPOSED PATCH] C-x 8 shorthands for curved quotes, Euro, etc Paul Eggert
2015-05-04 14:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-04 15:20 ` bug#16082: " Ivan Shmakov
2015-05-04 15:41 ` bug#20499: " Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-04 16:12 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-05-04 16:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-04 18:12 ` bug#20499: " Ivan Shmakov
2015-05-04 18:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-04 22:00 ` bug#20499: bug#16082: bug#20499: [PROPOSED PATCH] " Stefan Monnier
2015-05-04 16:11 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2015-05-04 16:15 ` Richard Stallman
2015-05-04 16:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-04 16:48 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-05-04 17:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-04 17:40 ` bug#20499: " Ivan Shmakov
2015-05-04 22:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-05-05 14:38 ` bug#20499: [PROPOSED PATCH] " Richard Stallman
2015-05-05 14:49 ` Ted Zlatanov
2015-05-05 15:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-05 16:05 ` bug#20499: " Ivan Shmakov
2015-05-05 15:31 ` bug#20499: [PROPOSED PATCH] " Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-05 16:20 ` bug#20499: " Ivan Shmakov
2015-05-05 16:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-06 13:09 ` Richard Stallman
2015-05-06 15:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <<E1Ypz4X-0002JA-R0@fencepost.gnu.org>
2015-05-09 0:03 ` Drew Adams
2015-05-09 8:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-06 13:09 ` bug#20499: [PROPOSED PATCH] " Richard Stallman
2015-05-06 16:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-07 22:22 ` Richard Stallman
2015-05-08 5:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-08 18:46 ` Richard Stallman
2015-05-08 18:46 ` Richard Stallman
2015-05-09 7:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-09 14:17 ` Richard Stallman
2015-05-09 14:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-08 20:18 ` Drew Adams
2015-05-09 7:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-04 18:40 ` Paul Eggert
2015-05-05 6:03 ` Paul Eggert
2015-05-06 22:20 ` bug#20499: " Ivan Shmakov
2015-05-07 4:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-07 7:14 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-05-07 14:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-07 7:53 ` bug#20499: [PROPOSED PATCH] " Paul Eggert
2015-05-07 10:00 ` bug#20499: " Ivan Shmakov
2015-05-07 14:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-07 17:03 ` bug#20499: [PROPOSED PATCH] " Stefan Monnier
2015-05-11 0:51 ` Paul Eggert
2015-05-11 2:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-05-11 1:28 ` bug#20499: [PROPOSED PATCH] C-x 8 shorthands for curved quotes, , " Paul Eggert
2015-05-11 14:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-11 15:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-05-11 16:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-11 18:48 ` Paul Eggert
2015-05-11 19:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-12 8:56 ` Richard Stallman
2015-05-12 16:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-26 15:12 ` bug#16082: " Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-13 8:49 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2015-05-11 18:27 ` Richard Stallman
2015-05-11 1:55 ` bug#20499: C-x 8 shorthands for curved quotes, " Paul Eggert
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