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: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:18:46 +0900 Message-ID: References: <868ww3vydn.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87tzeokrku.fsf@jurta.org> <87tzeogih6.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <488020A4.4060601@harpegolden.net> <873am6rb8k.fsf@jurta.org> <87r69oqojm.fsf@jurta.org> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216783288 917 80.91.229.12 (23 Jul 2008 03:21:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 03:21:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: david@harpegolden.net, lekktu@gmail.com, tzz@lifelogs.com, Kenichi Handa , emacs-devel@gnu.org, juri@jurta.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 23 05:22:16 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 1KLUvf-0008Uw-DX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:22:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53181 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KLUum-0005jX-0S for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:21:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KLUsT-0004mE-9i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:18:57 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KLUsR-0004kO-K1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:18:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56505 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KLUsR-0004kD-GA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:18:55 -0400 Original-Received: from tyo202.gate.nec.co.jp ([202.32.8.206]:37955) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KLUsN-000621-IN; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:18:52 -0400 Original-Received: from relay11.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.46]) by tyo202.gate.nec.co.jp (8.13.8/8.13.4) with ESMTP id m6N3Ihge002340; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:18:47 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from relay11.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.16] [10.29.19.16]) by relay11.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:18:47 +0900 Original-Received: from dhapc248.dev.necel.com ([10.114.112.215] [10.114.112.215]) by relay11.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:18:47 +0900 Original-Received: by dhapc248.dev.necel.com (Postfix, from userid 31295) id D4DA6466; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:18:46 +0900 (JST) System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:32:50 -0400") Original-Lines: 23 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 8 (1) 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:101274 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > I'd drop the C-x 8 1 / 2, C-x 8 1 / 4, and C-x 8 3 / 4, replace them > with something else Heh, I always try to type "C-x 8 / 1 2" etc for those chars anyway ... :-) (somehow it makes more sense to me, given C-x 8's general "accent prefix" style, and of course looks more like lisp :-). > and then use C-x 8 NNNN RET. Note that I'd also imagine the NNNN to > use hex, so it would also conflict with other existing bindings, but I > think we can force the use to use C-x 8 0 NNNN for those cases. The only conflict, afaict, is "C-x 8 c", which currently gives "=A2". That binding could just be moved somewhere else; I don't imagine the cent-sign is used very heavily... -Miles --=20 Any man who is a triangle, has thee right, when in Cartesian Space, to have angles, which when summed, come to know more, nor no less, than nine score degrees, should he so wish. [TEMPLE OV THEE LEMUR]