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: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:24:38 -0400 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> <006a01c8ec04$27f3c2d0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> <86ej5keovj.fsf@lifelogs.com> <48872C97.6020505@gmail.com> <873am0fzfw.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 1216841097 25350 80.91.229.12 (23 Jul 2008 19:24:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:24:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ted Zlatanov , "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 23 21:25:46 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 1KLjy3-0008FD-FD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:25:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55120 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KLjx9-0008Gw-Rn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:24:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KLjx3-0008FP-4t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:24:41 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KLjx2-0008Et-Bs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:24:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55610 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KLjx2-0008Eq-5T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:24:40 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:60817) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KLjx1-0007X6-LP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:24:39 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Aq8EAG0ih0hFxIYw/2dsb2JhbACBWrIhgX0 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.31,239,1215403200"; d="scan'208";a="24724196" Original-Received: from 69-196-134-48.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.196.134.48]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 23 Jul 2008 15:24:38 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 17EFB7F1C; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:24:38 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <873am0fzfw.fsf@jurta.org> (Juri Linkov's message of "Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:27:31 +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:101325 Archived-At: >>> I don't understand why we don't just provide an interactive function and >>> let the users pick the keybinding they like. IMHO this is completely We have that already. What I want is to deprecate/remove the C-q NNN method of entry, and move it elsewhere. I think that C-x 8 is the best place for it. We can also provide a default binding for ucs-insert on C-x 8 RET so users don't have to choose one. > After binding `C-x 8 RET' to `ucs-insert' we could improve `ucs-insert' > to parse more notations supported by Emacs like "#x..." and "?\x..." > and to input characters by Unicode name with completion. Yes, that's the idea. Stefan