From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: inputting characters by hexadigit Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:51:38 -0400 Message-ID: <874p68za5h.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <868ww3vydn.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87tzeogih6.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <488020A4.4060601@harpegolden.net> <873am6rb8k.fsf@jurta.org> <87r69oqojm.fsf@jurta.org> <006a01c8ec04$27f3c2d0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> <86ej5keovj.fsf@lifelogs.com> <48872C97.6020505@gmail.com> <873am0fzfw.fsf@jurta.org> <874p6g1fpx.fsf@jurta.org> <877ib4lmla.fsf@jurta.org> <87sktsoarg.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <878wvkfuk1.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1217364689 12085 80.91.229.12 (29 Jul 2008 20:51:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:51:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juri Linkov , Ted Zlatanov , "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 29 22:52:18 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KNwAx-0004Op-Qd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:52:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42225 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KNwA3-0006qj-6m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:51:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KNw96-0005rI-Bd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:50:12 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KNw91-0005oL-Pb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:50:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=46067 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KNw91-0005o8-JQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:50:07 -0400 Original-Received: from cyd.mit.edu ([18.115.2.24]:38855 helo=cyd) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KNw90-0007My-NN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:50:06 -0400 Original-Received: by cyd (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A701457E330; Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:51:38 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:55:03 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:101719 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> I think we should improve `ucs-insert' to accept input in standard >> Emacs Lisp notations: #o... for octal and #x... for hex. > > Agreed. Sure, though it should be noted that this is an incompatible editing change: with standing Lisp notation, 123 would be decimal, not octal.