From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)
Cc: stephen@xemacs.org, miles@gnu.org, eliz@is.elta.co.il,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Insert Euro symbol
Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 10:25:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vafelgoweiq.fsf@INBOX.auto.emacs.devel.tok.lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200205061932.g46JWUU02242@aztec.santafe.edu> (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon, 6 May 2002 13:32:30 -0600 (MDT)")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> I see your point, and it would require zero additional change to
> permit input methods that were intended for use only in C-x 8. But
> I tend to think they won't be useful, because it won't be worth
> learning a different input method just for use within C-x 8. The
> whole idea here is that you put an input method on C-x 8 to use it
> "occasionally." People don't want to learn a lot more in order to
> do something occasionally.
>
> Now, if there could be a systematic simplification, such as
> "You don't need to type ., after C-x 8", that could be worth while
> because the amount one needs to remember is small.
The "systematic simplification" I have in mind would be that C-x 8
offers both prefix-style sequences and postfix-style sequences:
C-x 8 ' e
C-x 8 e '
Both of these sequences insert the é character.
Another thing that's useful, IMHO, is to make C-x 8 change as little
as possible. That is, if the C-x 8 foo key sequence inserted the bar
character before, it should continue to do so.
Yet another idea: it is harmless to override many key sequences in
C-x 8, so C-x 8 could offer convenient shortcuts, in case people like
them.
In the end, we just compute the union of
- the existing set of key sequences for C-x 8
- latin-*-prefix
- latin-*-postfix
- whatever else comes to our mind.
We just need to be careful when conflicts arise. I don't know how to
resolve them: should we prefer the old C-x 8 bindings, or the latin-*
input methods?
kai
--
Silence is foo!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-07 8:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-02 13:19 Insert Euro symbol Kai Großjohann
2002-05-02 13:30 ` Alan Shutko
2002-05-02 13:43 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-05-02 15:12 ` Karl Eichwalder
2002-05-02 15:33 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-05-03 18:25 ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-03 19:59 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-05-04 15:02 ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-05 6:39 ` Werner LEMBERG
2002-05-06 6:24 ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-06 12:16 ` Werner LEMBERG
2002-05-07 4:58 ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-07 7:06 ` Werner LEMBERG
2002-05-08 13:58 ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-06 9:54 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-05-06 12:09 ` Werner LEMBERG
2002-05-05 23:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-05-02 13:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-05-02 16:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-05-02 20:17 ` Miles Bader
2002-05-03 6:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-05-03 10:48 ` Miles Bader
2002-05-04 6:06 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2002-05-04 11:52 ` Miles Bader
2002-05-05 5:34 ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-05 11:52 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-05-06 6:24 ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-06 9:50 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-05-06 19:32 ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-07 8:25 ` Kai Großjohann [this message]
2002-05-08 13:58 ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-08 15:02 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-05-09 14:59 ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-12 12:21 ` Florian Weimer
2002-05-13 14:18 ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-13 14:28 ` Florian Weimer
2002-05-14 19:41 ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-08 13:58 ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-07 9:12 ` Miles Bader
2002-05-03 9:52 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-05-03 10:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-05-03 11:24 ` Kai Großjohann
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