From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: C-= ? Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 01:14:14 +0200 Message-ID: <87r3o3oi49.fsf@nl106-137-147.student.uu.se> References: <87oaj99v18.fsf@skimble.plus.com> <20150719011508.19549.09878E5B@ahiker.mooo.com> <87mvysva7p.fsf@nl106-137-147.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1437348035 30969 80.91.229.3 (19 Jul 2015 23:20:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2015 23:20:35 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 20 01:20:27 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZGxsg-0008Ll-0z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Jul 2015 01:20:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53152 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZGxsf-0006hc-2y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Jul 2015 19:20:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43817) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZGxsT-0006hM-OH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Jul 2015 19:20:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZGxsQ-0006vP-Al for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Jul 2015 19:20:13 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:42163) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZGxsQ-0006vD-4R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Jul 2015 19:20:10 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZGxsJ-0008EP-TN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jul 2015 01:20:03 +0200 Original-Received: from nl106-137-156.student.uu.se ([130.243.137.156]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 20 Jul 2015 01:20:03 +0200 Original-Received: from embe8573 by nl106-137-156.student.uu.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 20 Jul 2015 01:20:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 32 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: nl106-137-156.student.uu.se Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:t25AU116bLBntPo5EnS45qfbxxw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:105861 Archived-At: Yuri Khan 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