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bug#24902: 25.1; C-x = for Unicode
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Robert Pluim |
Subject: |
bug#24902: 25.1; C-x = for Unicode |
Date: |
Mon, 24 Jan 2022 12:16:19 +0100 |
>>>>> On Mon, 24 Jan 2022 11:40:01 +0100, Mattias Engdegård <mattiase@acm.org>
>>>>> said:
Mattias> 24 jan. 2022 kl. 10.21 skrev Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>:
>> Emacs defaults to showing some things in octal, so showing octal here
>> isn't that absurd...
Mattias> What things would that be? The only ones I can think of are raw
bytes and some control characters.
Mattias> The only reason why C-x = shows octal is inertia. If you wrote the
command today, you would not include octal.
Mattias> This is just another Immovable Ladder in Emacs. It must be
preserved
Mattias> exactly as it is, for the sole reason that it has always been this
Mattias> way.
>> `C-x 8 e d' says what the name of the character is. Perhaps it should
>> also include the hex value...
Mattias> Or perhaps we could improve the more commonly used and accessible
`C-x =` to show both?
Mattias> I could write a patch to change it (with an option to keep the Good
Mattias> Old Times look for the traditionalist), but there's no point if it
Mattias> would be dismissed out of hand. Would it?
I sense a discoverability issue related to 'what-cursor-show-names'
:-)
(FWIW I agree about the octal, but that is another discussion)
Robert
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- bug#24902: Antw: [EXT] Re: bug#24902: 25.1; C-x = for Unicode, (continued)
- bug#24902: 25.1; C-x = for Unicode, Mattias Engdegård, 2022/01/26
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- bug#24902: Antw: [EXT] Re: bug#24902: 25.1; C‑x = for Unicode, Ulrich Windl, 2022/01/27
- bug#24902: Antw: [EXT] Re: bug#24902: 25.1; C‑x = for Unicode, Robert Pluim, 2022/01/27
- bug#24902: Antw: [EXT] Re: bug#24902: 25.1; C‑x= for Unicode, Ulrich Windl, 2022/01/27
- bug#24902: Antw: [EXT] Re: bug#24902: 25.1; C‑x= for Unicode, Robert Pluim, 2022/01/27
- bug#24902: Antw: [EXT] Re: bug#24902: 25.1; C‑x = for Unicode, Mattias Engdegård, 2022/01/27
- bug#24902: Antw: [EXT] Re: bug#24902: 25.1; C‑x = for Unicode, Ulrich Windl, 2022/01/27
- bug#24902: Antw: [EXT] Re: bug#24902: 25.1; C‑x = for Unicode, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/01/27
- bug#24902: 25.1; C-x = for Unicode,
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