RE: FW: Emacs non-ascii characters

[Drew Adams]

    > This makes me wonder if `C-\' isn't a bad binding for such a
    command. Should
    > toggling the input method be on a key binding that is easy to hit by
    > mistake?

    ``Easy to hit by mistake''?  IMHO, no key combination is so _hard_ to
    hit by mistake as C-\.  On some non-US keyboards it's almost
    impossible to hit by mistake, since it requires to use the AltGr key.

    I do use input methods a lot, and yet I have never hit that key combo
    by mistake until now.

Well, I won't argue about it much - it's not a problem I've run into; I'm
just the messenger.

WRT the difficulty of accidentally hitting `C-\' -

I have only standard, US PC keyboards, probably the most common keyboards
there are currently. `C-\' is very easy to hit by mistake: `\' is just above
the Enter key and just to the right of `]'. There is nothing hard about
hitting `\', and one could easily hit `C-\' when trying to hit `C-]'
(abort-recursive-edit).

`C-\' could also be hit easily by mistake using Shift instead of Control:
`|' is the shifted version of `\' and `}' is the shifted version of `]'.