bug#20499: [PROPOSED PATCH] C-x 8 shorthands for curved quotes, Euro, etc.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 05 May 2015 10:49:36 -0400
> Cc: Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.net>, 20499@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Could something like eldoc be used instead to show the information and
> the all the shortcuts to that character without switching buffers?

Sounds like a natural extension of "C-x =".

(And no, I don't think that showing that info without an explicit user
command is a good idea in this case.  Eldoc has a very different use
case in mind.)