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Re: inputting characters by hexadigit
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: inputting characters by hexadigit |
Date: |
Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:04:49 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
>> So by using chars ? # or \ to mean something else, we get into the
>> situation where the user might not know how to insert #, ?, or \ when
>> those keys are bound to non-self-inserting commands. I think this is
>> a serious problem.
> Well, that's true enough, though of course already applies to 0-7 or
> 0-9A-F depending on read-quoted-char-radix
That's true, and it bit me already several times. I'd really prefer not
to make it worse.
> (Though one thing that springs to mind is to allow C-q ## to insert
> a literal #...
Maybe C-q # SPC (and C-q ? SPC, ...) could be used, indeed. But it's
still yet-another-rule to learn.
> Also, couldn't #?\ pretty easily be made another
> customize option? read-quoted-char-accept-elisp-literals)
I'm only worried about the default behavior, here, but providing this
functionality via an option doesn't seem very satisfactory either.
I think a good solution should start by scrapping the C-q <octal>
corner case, and replace it with something that does not interfere as
much with C-q <char> and which additionally accepts hexadecimal (and
maybe more such as char names, ...).
Stefan
- Re: inputting characters by hexadigit, (continued)
- Re: inputting characters by hexadigit, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/07/19
- Re: inputting characters by hexadigit, Miles Bader, 2008/07/18
- Re: inputting characters by hexadigit, Juri Linkov, 2008/07/18
- Re: inputting characters by hexadigit, Juri Linkov, 2008/07/18
- Re: inputting characters by hexadigit, Juri Linkov, 2008/07/20
- Re: inputting characters by hexadigit, Stefan Monnier, 2008/07/20
- Re: inputting characters by hexadigit, David De La Harpe Golden, 2008/07/21
- Re: inputting characters by hexadigit,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: inputting characters by hexadigit, Juri Linkov, 2008/07/21
- Re: inputting characters by hexadigit, Johan Bockgård, 2008/07/21
- Re: inputting characters by hexadigit, David Kastrup, 2008/07/21
- Re: inputting characters by hexadigit, Johan Bockgård, 2008/07/21
- Re: inputting characters by hexadigit, David Kastrup, 2008/07/21
- Re: inputting characters by hexadigit, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/07/21
- Re: inputting characters by hexadigit, David Kastrup, 2008/07/21
- Re: inputting characters by hexadigit, James Cloos, 2008/07/21
- Re: inputting characters by hexadigit, Stefan Monnier, 2008/07/21
- Re: inputting characters by hexadigit, Miles Bader, 2008/07/21