Re: inputting characters by hexadigit

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:

> "Juanma Barranquero" <address@hidden> writes:
>>> One funny idea.  How about using C-u (u for Unicode) as this way?
>>> 
>>> C-u 0 x X X X X RET  for U+XXXX   (and C-0 x X X X X RET)
>>> 
>>> C-u 0 x and C-0 x are noop now.
> >
> > FWIW, I like this one much, much more than the convoluted C-q 
> > alternatives...

> This behavior seems much, much, weirder, since it doesn't hook into any
> existing command in a way that make any sense...

We can think of it as a new key-binding for a new command.

The other ideas are:

  C-x # x X ... RET (this also allows C-x # b ..., C-x # o ...)
  
  C-c # x X ... RET (likewise)

  C-c 0 x X ... RET  (or C-c 0 X ... RET, C-c 8 X ... RET)

It seems that C-c 8 X ... RET is the easiest to type.

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Kenichi Handa
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