Re: inputting characters by hexadigit

[David Kastrup]

David De La Harpe Golden <address@hidden> writes:

> Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> AFAIK, the main use of C-q is to insert a char by hitting the
>> corresponding key, handy when that key is bound to something else than
>> self-insert-command.
>> 
>> So by using chars ? # or \ to mean something else, we get into the
>> situation where the user might not know how to insert #, ?, or \ when
>> those keys are bound to non-self-inserting commands.  I think this is
>> a serious problem.
>> 
>
> Well, that's true enough, though of course already applies to 0-7 or
> 0-9A-F depending on read-quoted-char-radix

But those are not likely to be rebound to electric functionality.  In
particular # is typically electric in cc-mode IIRC.

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