Re: latin1 input and underscores

[Frederik Fouvry]

,-- On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 17:08:10 +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
| 
| On Tue,  1 Mar 2005 18:35:04 +0100 (CET), Frederik Fouvry
| <address@hidden> wrote:
| > With the latin-1-prefix input method, what is the reason for turning
| > input "_ " (underscore space) into "\ " (backslash space)?
| 
| I've no opinion on whether the "_ " input sequence is the right thing
| or not, but that's actually an "unbreakable space" character, which
| emacs renders as "\ " in editing buffers.

My criticism wasn't on the input sequence itself.  Now that I know
what it is, it seems a very reasonable choice.  It was because of a
concern of how an underscore could be typed easily.  In the meantime,
I found out how to do this: _ C-q, just like with quotes, but somehow
I hadn't made that connection.

Thanks for the explanation,

Frederik Fouvry