Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs.

[Robert Pluim]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> Inserting ‘ and ’ is as very inconvenient.  Hunting for how to insert
> them is even more so, as it is not documented.
>
> Because I have an instance of ‘ in the buffer now, I was able to use
> C-u C-x = on it, which told me I could insert it with C-x 8 RET 2018
> RET.
>
> I will not remember that hex code.  I will be able to look it up again
> next time -- if I have an instance in the buffer.  Of course, given
> one the buffer, I will not use C-x 8, I will copy it with the kill
> ring.  In other words, this character is so inconvenient to insert
> that I will use workarounds rather than try.

Based on what's in iso-transl.el, C-x 8 [ will insert a single quote
(and similarly C-x 8 { double quotes).  Personally I prefer A-[ and
A-{

I agree it would be very useful if C-u C-x = mentioned those bindings
instead of or in addition to the hex code version.

Robert