Re: C-x 8 shorthands for ≤ and ≥

[Kaushal]

ag '>.*»' in lisp/ dir turned up with these:

international/iso-transl.el:135:    ("*>"   . [?»])

international/iso-transl.el:136:    (">"    . [?»])

leim/quail/cyrillic.el:1088: ("/>>" ?»)  ;; RIGHT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK

leim/quail/latin-ltx.el:710: ("\\frqq" ?\») ("\\\">" ?\»)

leim/quail/persian.el:455: ("\\>" ?\u00BB)     ;; (ucs-insert #x00BB)»   named:

leim/quail/greek.el:799: (">>" ?») ; #x00bb

leim/quail/greek.el:1283: (";>" ?»))

leim/quail/greek.el:1428: (">>" ?»))

leim/quail/latin-alt.el:134: (">>" ?»)

leim/quail/latin-alt.el:974: (">>" ?»)

leim/quail/latin-alt.el:1049: (">>" ?»)

leim/quail/latin-alt.el:1371: (">>" ?»)

leim/quail/latin-post.el:122: (">>" ?»)

leim/quail/latin-post.el:1049: (">>" ?»)

leim/quail/latin-post.el:1214: (">>" ?»)

leim/quail/latin-post.el:2118: (">>" ?\»)

leim/quail/latin-pre.el:136: ("~>" ?\»)

leim/quail/latin-pre.el:222: ("~>" ?\»)

leim/quail/latin-pre.el:303: ("~>" ?\»)

leim/quail/latin-pre.el:474: ("~>" ?\»)

leim/quail/latin-pre.el:824: ("~>" ?\»)

leim/quail/latin-pre.el:1158: ("~>" ?\»)

leim/quail/rfc1345.el:226: ("&>>" ?\»)

org/org-entities.el:258:    ("raquo" "\\guillemotright{}" nil "»" ">>" "»" "»")

textmodes/tex-mode.el:241:  :options '("''" "\">" "\"'" ">>" "»")

textmodes/tex-mode.el:585:      (regexp-opt `("''" "\">" "\"'" ">>" "»") t))

I see that even the ">>" binding is used up for » at many places.

--
Kaushal Modi

On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:

>>>   ("_<" . [?≤])
>>>   ("_>" . [?≥])
>>> Can the bindings be changed to these:
>>>   ("<=" . [?≤])
>>>   (">=" . [?≥])
>
> FWIW, I agree.

Me too.

>> ">" is already bound to »
>> "<" is already boudn to «
>
> ">>" and "<<" would seem to be better choices.

Yep.  Additionally, this is already used in the latin-1 input method.

> The shorter `C-x <' used so far made sense when we restricted C-x 8
> to something like Latin-1, but if we want to extend coverage, I
> don't think we can afford such short bindings.

It probably makes sense to compare the bindings with other latin-X
methods, probably finding some compromises where necessary.


    Werner