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Re: inputting characters by hexadigit
From: |
David Kastrup |
Subject: |
Re: inputting characters by hexadigit |
Date: |
Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:37:13 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
"Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden> writes:
> David Kastrup wrote:
>> address@hidden (Johan Bockgård) writes:
>>
>>> David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
>>>
>>>> address@hidden (Johan Bockgård) writes:
>>>>
>>>>> Juri Linkov <address@hidden> writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>> To do this we should find only one special key to activate input by
>>>>>> number. I propose `RET'.
>>>>> I suggest C-q.
>>>> That leaves the user without a reasonable or obvious key combination to
>>>> insert C-q.
>>> C-q C-q C-q
>>
>> Where is the reasoning or obviousness?
>
> Maybe: easy to type, easy to remember + a little message after C-q C-q
I don't like it. I think that _if_ we are going to overload C-q, we
should use characters that are _not_ in the normal use set of C-q.
U is tolerable in that regard, and so would be x and o. But C-q or RET
or # (some recent suggestions) are not in that set in my opinion.
--
David Kastrup
- Re: inputting characters by hexadigit, (continued)
- 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, 2008/07/21
- 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 <=
- 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
- Re: inputting characters by hexadigit, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 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 De La Harpe Golden, 2008/07/21
- Re: inputting characters by hexadigit, Juri Linkov, 2008/07/22
- Re: inputting characters by hexadigit, David Kastrup, 2008/07/21