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Re: inputting characters by hexadigit


From: Miles Bader
Subject: Re: inputting characters by hexadigit
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:39:01 +0900

David De La Harpe Golden <address@hidden> writes:
>> I once proposed C-q 8 and C-9 to change read-quoted-char-radix to 10
>> and 16 temporarily so that one can type C-q 9 c 0 RET to input
>> U+00C0.  I still think it's very convenient.
>
> Well, convenient, but maybe supporting emacs lisp hex
> literal syntax might be more memorable? e.g. C-q #x2618

Yes, that sounds like a good syntax to me -- I think it's important that
it be easy to remember, because many people will use it only
occasionally.

-Miles

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