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: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:51:10 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <878wvkfuk1.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> <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> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1217353976 7936 80.91.229.12 (29 Jul 2008 17:52:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:52:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ted Zlatanov , "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" , Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 29 19:53:45 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 1KNtO3-0005N7-Pb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:53:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50567 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KNtN6-0001HQ-5U for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:52:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KNtMH-0000wC-7W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:51:37 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KNtMG-0000vs-2M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:51:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=46535 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KNtMF-0000vj-Qy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:51:35 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp-out.neti.ee ([194.126.126.37]:48824) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KNtME-0002Dp-V3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:51:35 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by MXR-13.estpak.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id B805026EFD; Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:51:32 +0300 (EEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at !change-mydomain-variable!.example.com Original-Received: from smtp-out.neti.ee ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (MXR-1.estpak.ee [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id rKun7txjDqHu; Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:51:29 +0300 (EEST) Original-Received: from Relayhost2.neti.ee (Relayhost2 [88.196.174.142]) by MXR-13.estpak.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED98526F5B; Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:51:28 +0300 (EEST) Original-Received: from mail.estpak.ee (66.132.191.90.dyn.estpak.ee [90.191.132.66]) by Relayhost2.neti.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADC531FB106; Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:51:29 +0300 (EEST) In-Reply-To: <87sktsoarg.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (Chong Yidong's message of "Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:33:55 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) 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:101704 Archived-At: > I'm curious, though: by default, when you use C-q to input a number, the > radix is octal; by changing read-quoted-char-radix, you can change this > to decimal or hexadecimal. In contrast, ucs-insert always reads the > code in hexadecimal. I don't use these commands myself, so I'm > wondering which is the preferred behavior (based on the defaults in > other applications, and so forth)? I think we should improve `ucs-insert' to accept input in standard Emacs Lisp notations: #o... for octal and #x... for hex. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/