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: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:01:28 +0900 Message-ID: <87iqv4gg47.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> 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 1216342922 31902 80.91.229.12 (18 Jul 2008 01:02:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:02:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, tzz@lifelogs.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Kenichi Handa Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 18 03:02:50 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 1KJeMr-0005Fe-2g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:02:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47286 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KJeLx-0001Pm-7w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:01:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KJeLt-0001Ob-6G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:01:41 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KJeLr-0001NM-Ql for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:01:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=47964 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KJeLr-0001NF-LE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:01:39 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp12.dentaku.gol.com ([203.216.5.74]:60156) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KJeLl-0006AM-IZ; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:01:34 -0400 Original-Received: from 218.33.237.77.eo.eaccess.ne.jp ([218.33.237.77] helo=catnip.gol.com) by smtp12.dentaku.gol.com with esmtpa (Dentaku) id 1KJeLg-00006w-VG; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:01:29 +0900 Original-Received: by catnip.gol.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A62DE2F3A; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:01:28 +0900 (JST) System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: (Kenichi Handa's message of "Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:47:13 +0900") Original-Lines: 24 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:100916 Archived-At: Kenichi Handa writes: >> While C-q can be changed to use hex chars, that's a change >> to its historical behavior. > > I think people who want to input Unicode characters by > typing code point should customize read-quoted-char-radix to > 16. That presumes that unicode characters are only input by people who want to do it a lot. However, for _occasional_ users, it's silly to require them to customize read-quoted-char-radix just to input a character code they read on some webpage somewhere. > I once proposed C-q 8 and C-9 to change > read-quoted-char-radix to 10 and 16 temporarily so that one > can type C-q 9 c 0 RET to input U+00C0. I still think it's > very convenient. That's pretty convoluted... -Miles -- Monday, n. In Christian countries, the day after the baseball game.