From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Alfred M. Szmidt" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: inputting characters by hexadigit Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:03:09 -0400 Message-ID: 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> <85bq0rasjd.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <4884F33D.1060905@harpegolden.net> <854p6jarz8.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Reply-To: ams@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216674374 5922 80.91.229.12 (21 Jul 2008 21:06:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:06:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: handa@m17n.org, tzz@lifelogs.com, david@harpegolden.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org, juri@jurta.org, monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, cloos@jhcloos.com, miles@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 21 23:07:02 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 1KL2aX-0004jh-IS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:06:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43894 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KL2Ze-0005kU-Ey for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:05:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KL2Y1-0004B7-IJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:03:57 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KL2Y0-00049L-0I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:03:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34340 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KL2Xz-000498-O6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:03:55 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:57004) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KL2Xz-0003Gr-9n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:03:55 -0400 Original-Received: from ams by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1KL2XF-0007VT-Dl; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:03:09 -0400 In-reply-to: <854p6jarz8.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (message from David Kastrup on Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:43:07 +0200) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:101126 Archived-At: C-M-q is a terrible keybinding to choose, it tends to mean "fill current defun" in whatever language specific mode you are in; and is used in many modes making it quite pointless to use it for inserting characters by hex. Inserting chars. by hex is also not the most common thing to have, so having a single chord for it seems silly. I liked the proposal of using M-#, one could allow other input formats as well: C-q M-# xff C-q M-# b01010101 C-q M-# o157 and would be a good mnemonic...