bug#24902: 25.1; C-x = for Unicode

[Mattias Engdegård]

24 jan. 2022 kl. 12.00 skrev Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>:

>  The reason we don't remove all the octal
> stuff from Emacs is that it'd annoy a significant number of people.

Oh, that is perfectly understood, and please do believe that I'm not accusing 
you of stubborn conservatism! But being human, you and I both are capable of 
making sometimes less than perfect decisions for excellent reasons such as not 
wanting to annoy people. We then fail taking into account the people that are 
annoyed by these decisions.

There is no perfect solution to this problem but fearless discussion is a good 
start.

> Making a format-spec thing for `C-x =' would be fine by me.

That would of course also be possible, but I'm not sure the complexity (in 
implementing, maintaining and using it) would be warranted. What about just 
starting with two choices, old and new, while honouring the existing 
`what-cursor-show-names` variable in the former case? A more complex 
user-define format could be added as a later alternative.

> I don't understand the aggression here, though.

My sincerest apologies -- none were meant.