From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: James Cloos Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: inputting characters by hexadigit Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:08:18 -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> <87vdz3p3om.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <4880D3E4.7050400@harpegolden.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216404569 16630 80.91.229.12 (18 Jul 2008 18:09:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:09:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, "Stephen J. Turnbull" , Miles Bader , tzz@lifelogs.com, Kenichi Handa To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 18 20:10:16 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 1KJuPF-0000O5-OW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:10:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52093 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KJuOM-0002Of-Tj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:09:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KJuOI-0002ON-NH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:09:14 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KJuOH-0002No-6I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:09:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59571 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KJuOH-0002Nd-1X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:09:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eagle.jhcloos.com ([207.210.242.212]:4873) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KJuOA-0006ZZ-0l; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:09:06 -0400 Original-Received: by eagle.jhcloos.com (Postfix, from userid 10) id 72B6C402DE; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:09:02 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=jhcloos.com; s=eagle; t=1216404542; bh=eMguBCd4feRBZNYX2xbmIG9kjKT1VnChUq1lDKNmf X8=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:Message-ID: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=d3YqmCT6D1h0RC0n4yUCxpO60MExf5QKOLFEn D67LtfX/oDrBZ54UkaSueud62YC3OcY1B2Lx5s6cPzY1yrauWSASZJBYcNX3gE/2nwh wrsfzET0FlM0jIRmmA0/0BgNBjLFMAKApHzO9nsqCJRzIAq9E3FcdREHASm2h/7sSFk = Original-Received: by lugabout.jhcloos.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id 5FB06210679; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:08:41 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <4880D3E4.7050400@harpegolden.net> (David De La Harpe Golden's message of "Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:33:24 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAQCAYAAAAf8/9hAAAABHNCSVQICAgIfAhkiAAAAI1J REFUOE+lU9ESgCAIg64P1y+ngUdxhl5H8wFbbM0OmUiEhKkCYaZThXCo6KE5sCbA1DDX3genvO4d eBQgEMaM5qy6uWk4SfBYfdu9jvBN9nSVDOKRtwb+I3epboOsOX5pZbJNsBJFvmQQ05YMfieIBnYX FK2N6dOawd97r/e8RjkTLzmMsiVgrAoEugtviCM3v2WzjgAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== Copyright: Copyright 2008 James Cloos OpenPGP: ED7DAEA6; url=http://jhcloos.com/public_key/0xED7DAEA6.asc OpenPGP-Fingerprint: E9E9 F828 61A4 6EA9 0F2B 63E7 997A 9F17 ED7D AEA6 Original-Lines: 15 X-Hashcash: 1:23:080718:emacs-devel@gnu.org::yAhi0Z2wQsTDvLU5:000000000000000000000000000000000000000000Cj/K X-Hashcash: 1:23:080718:stephen@xemacs.org::ezS6EMzXXZLHPrAv:00000000000000000000000000000000000000000002quj X-Hashcash: 1:23:080718:juri@jurta.org::Dtrb9RAyb2c/Lp86:000Mlfk X-Hashcash: 1:23:080718:tzz@lifelogs.com::XhBhgNc4cPAk8fD8:0i/63 X-Hashcash: 1:23:080718:handa@m17n.org::wu6lfU86NdgJJWyP:000B+PA X-Hashcash: 1:23:080718:miles@gnu.org::UTrmsqBwz0C5HZLx:0000YZ4r 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:100950 Archived-At: [Choosing a random message on the thread...] In the UCS age I would just make read-quoted-char-radix deafult to 16. No one really uses octal any more. I can't remember wanting it for anything other than chmod in the last two decades. Doing + is /much/ easier than anything else. And there have been enough other changes to defaults that one more isn't such a big deal. :^/ -JimC -- James Cloos OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6