From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: inputting characters by hexadigit Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:27:09 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <877ibchek4.fsf@jurta.org> References: <868ww3vydn.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87tzeokrku.fsf@jurta.org> <87tzeogih6.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <488020A4.4060601@harpegolden.net> <873am6rb8k.fsf@jurta.org> <87r69oqojm.fsf@jurta.org> <4886A7D0.8070007@harpegolden.net> <87wsjdgd6r.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 1216823471 22775 80.91.229.12 (23 Jul 2008 14:31:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:31:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: David De La Harpe Golden , lekktu@gmail.com, tzz@lifelogs.com, Kenichi Handa , emacs-devel@gnu.org, Stefan Monnier To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 23 16:31:59 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 1KLfNW-0007Kr-N1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:31:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34426 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KLfMd-000586-BO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:30:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KLfLu-0004tr-IK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:30:02 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KLfLt-0004tI-6c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:30:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=45214 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KLfLs-0004tB-SE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:30:00 -0400 Original-Received: from relay02.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.197]:49919) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KLfLn-0001Fc-V1; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:29:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay02.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1KLfLh-0004A0-Kh; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:29:49 +0300 In-Reply-To: (Miles Bader's message of "Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:15:28 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-Scanner-Signature: 0a21689c2f1d2e94d8aa83f1a1b60733 X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: juri@jurta.org X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Header: Trusted X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 4422 [July 23 2008] X-SpamTest-Info: {received from trusted relay: common white list} X-SpamTest-Info: {HEADERS: header Content-Type found without required header Content-Transfer-Encoding} X-SpamTest-Method: white ip list X-SpamTest-Rate: 10 X-SpamTest-Status: Trusted X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: trusted X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0278], KAS30/Release X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 6.x (1) 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:101311 Archived-At: >> Another drawback (that C-q currently has too) is an inability to edit >> incomplete input. This pushes us back to the era of dumb calculators >> without the backspace key. >> >> A more convenient method is to use the minibuffer to input the number. > > We could have C-x 8 prompt using the minibuffer, > with pre-stuffed into it... > > (defun read-and-insert-numeric-char (initial-input) > (interactive (list (string last-command-char))) > (insert > (string-to-number > (read-from-minibuffer "Character code (hex): " initial-input) > 16))) > > (dolist (ch '(?0 ?1 ?2 ?3 ?4 ?5 ?6 ?7 ?8 ?9 ?a ?b ?c ?d ?e ?f)) > (global-set-key (vector ?\C-x ?8 ch) 'read-and-insert-numeric-char)) > > [This is not entirely correct, since I'm not sure where the C-x 8 keymap > is located, so I'm just using the global map...] Such complexity has a tendency to cause a pain in the buffer. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/