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: C-M-\ on windows? Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:08:18 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20070227135457.2592@henman-np.b-eng.it.to-be.co.jp> <45E3CEB7.5010800@gmail.com> <7dbe73ed0702270821p109cd93asa2ab574d6e838fa1@mail.gmail.com> 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: sea.gmane.org 1172596148 5862 80.91.229.12 (27 Feb 2007 17:09:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:09:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" , djh , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Mathias Dahl" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 27 18:09:00 2007 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 1HM5op-0001vR-Od for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:08:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HM5op-00005P-97 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:08:51 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HM5od-00005K-B2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:08:39 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HM5ob-00004t-5k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:08:38 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HM5ob-00004q-2h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:08:37 -0500 Original-Received: from mercure.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.24.67]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1HM5oa-00050E-LJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:08:36 -0500 Original-Received: from hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.50]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 008242CEB65; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:08:35 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from faina.iro.umontreal.ca (faina.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.26.177]) by hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 149B03FE0; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:08:19 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by faina.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id EBF194C6D25; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:08:18 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <7dbe73ed0702270821p109cd93asa2ab574d6e838fa1@mail.gmail.com> (Mathias Dahl's message of "Tue\, 27 Feb 2007 17\:21\:36 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.92 (gnu/linux) X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-2.82, requis 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -2.82) X-DIRO-MailScanner-From: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:66932 Archived-At: >> But on some international keyboard (like the Swedish keyboard) C-[ is >> close to useless! It is a 3-key combination (AltGr+Rtrl+8). > If people knew what we Swedes have to (well, I could change my layout > but I would really miss my =E5, =E4 and =F6...) put up with when typing a= ll > these "programming-characters", they would probably wonder how anyone > in Sweden works with IT... :) I always use the "compose" key for all my accents, whether I'm writing French or Spanish. Never seemed like a big deal. And the being able to use a US layout makes up for it awesomely. Stefan