From: Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: C-= ?
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 01:14:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r3o3oi49.fsf@nl106-137-147.student.uu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAP_d_8WAAzHf+dWiuj+QinXdAqxcrORuoqSP2yjD6yKM4yvDTg@mail.gmail.com
Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> writes:
> If you are going to recommend people to hijack
> arbitrary Unicode characters for extended keycodes,
> at least tell them to pick codes from the
> Private Use Area (U+E000 up to and including
> U+F8FF). It is the Unicode equivalent of RFC 1918 IP
> addresses — guaranteed to never have an
> official meaning.
Ha ha, "hijack arbitrary Unicode characters" -
oh, Yuri, you old flatterer!
No, I think I'll do even better, I'll simply include
that whole paragraph in the tutorial, if you
don't mind!
> Better yet, design a complete, unambiguous,
> international-friendly and backward-compatible
> keycode system and lobby for its support
> out-of-the-box in the Linux tty and Xterm.
You forget that I am not in favor of
"international-friendly" stuff in the
computer-computer world, where it should be 512 chars
max and Anglo-American only.
Otherwise I would have done it instantly :)
--
underground experts united
http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-19 23:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-18 18:32 C-= ? Sharon Kimble
2015-07-18 19:28 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-07-18 19:33 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-07-19 1:26 ` Ian Zimmerman
2015-07-19 8:10 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-07-19 9:15 ` Yuri Khan
2015-07-19 23:14 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.7163.1437348015.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-07-20 2:47 ` Rusi
2015-07-19 3:37 ` Vaidheeswaran C
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