From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: inputting characters by hexadigit Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:23:54 +0900 Message-ID: <87ej5nhtph.fsf@catnip.gol.com> References: <868ww3vydn.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87myki6fqp.fsf@jurta.org> <87mykhz6tf.fsf@jurta.org> <87tzeokrku.fsf@jurta.org> <87tzeogih6.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <488020A4.4060601@harpegolden.net> <873am6rb8k.fsf@jurta.org> <87r69oqojm.fsf@jurta.org> <48841992.6030604@harpegolden.net> <877ibfipbg.fsf@jurta.org> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216671872 29625 80.91.229.12 (21 Jul 2008 20:24:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:24:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Kenichi Handa , tzz@lifelogs.com, David De La Harpe Golden , emacs-devel@gnu.org, Juri Linkov , James Cloos To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 21 22:25:20 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 1KL1wS-0007Ch-R6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:25:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35917 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KL1vZ-0006ne-LB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:24:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KL1vU-0006mm-Nf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:24:08 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KL1vT-0006mZ-J2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:24:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49494 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KL1vT-0006mW-GW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:24:07 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp12.dentaku.gol.com ([203.216.5.74]:58831) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KL1vO-0006RW-Iw; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:24:03 -0400 Original-Received: from 218.33.237.219.eo.eaccess.ne.jp ([218.33.237.219] helo=catnip.gol.com) by smtp12.dentaku.gol.com with esmtpa (Dentaku) id 1KL1vH-00080F-Uw; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:23:56 +0900 Original-Received: by catnip.gol.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2A2912F3A; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:23:55 +0900 (JST) System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:53:44 -0400") Original-Lines: 22 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV GOL (outbound) X-Abuse-Complaints: abuse@gol.com 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:101118 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > If we consider that C-q should stick to "insert ", then > one way to still use C-q + is to use non-chars in , > e.g. use the meta modifier. While that's a nice goal, I'm not sure the alternatives to C-q + MAGIC are any better... It seems to me that the having a single magic character would be reasonable, it's having 27 different magic characters that starts to get annoying. So how about "#" as the single magic char, and have "##" to insert a # character? Then than # followed by other characers can be used for lots of cool stuff... # DIGS, #xDIGS, #oDIGS, ... -Miles -- Once, adj. Enough.