From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: inputting characters by hexadigit Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:46:22 -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> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216604809 22494 80.91.229.12 (21 Jul 2008 01:46:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 01:46:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: tzz@lifelogs.com, David De La Harpe Golden , emacs-devel@gnu.org, Kenichi Handa , Miles Bader To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 21 03:47:36 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 1KKkUw-00016L-LP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 03:47:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40405 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KKkU2-0007ky-PJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:46:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KKkTv-0007eG-8I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:46:31 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KKkTt-0007dZ-Pm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:46:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=38422 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KKkTt-0007dW-ML for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:46:29 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:40334) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KKkTo-0008GG-SI; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:46:25 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvYEANCGg0hFxIYw/2dsb2JhbACBWqsZgXo X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.31,220,1215403200"; d="scan'208";a="24574653" Original-Received: from 69-196-134-48.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.196.134.48]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 20 Jul 2008 21:46:22 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 85BD58636; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:46:22 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87r69oqojm.fsf@jurta.org> (Juri Linkov's message of "Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:28:59 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:101037 Archived-At: AFAIK, the main use of C-q is to insert a char by hitting the corresponding key, handy when that key is bound to something else than self-insert-command. So by using chars ? # or \ to mean something else, we get into the situation where the user might not know how to insert #, ?, or \ when those keys are bound to non-self-inserting commands. I think this is a serious problem. Stefan