Re: inputting characters by hexadigit

[Miles Bader]

"Alfred M. Szmidt" <address@hidden> writes:
> I liked the proposal of using M-#, one could allow other input formats
> as well:
>
> C-q M-# xff
> C-q M-# b01010101
> C-q M-# o157
>
> and would be a good mnemonic...

Bindings that swap modifiers (control, then meta) are inevitably a pain
in the ass to type though...

Also many environments don't have real meta key available, and
presumably `ESC' is out as an alternative, because using C-q to quote
escape is probably rather common.

-Miles

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