Re: inputting characters by hexadigit

[Juri Linkov]

>> It seems that C-c 8 X ... RET is the easiest to type.
>
> I think C-c 8 is reserved already, but indeed C-x 8 might be a very good
> choice, since it's already used to enter other non-ascii chars.
> I think it would make a lot of sense to extend it with other
> combinations for various Unicode chars, as well as hex-codes for
> arbitrary chars.

It seems C-x 8 is a good key prefix for this thing, and the simplest
change we could make now is to bind `C-x 8 RET' to `ucs-insert'.

Or maybe also bind a new key to the `C-x RET' prefix, e.g.
bind `C-x RET C-q' to `ucs-insert'.

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Juri Linkov
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