Re: FW: Emacs non-ascii characters

[Jason Rumney]

Drew Adams wrote:

> I have only standard, US PC keyboards, probably the most common keyboards
> there are currently. `C-\' is very easy to hit by mistake: `\' is just above
> the Enter key and just to the right of `]'. There is nothing hard about
> hitting `\', and one could easily hit `C-\' when trying to hit `C-]'
> (abort-recursive-edit).
>  
Perhaps if the current locale is en_US (and other en variants, since 
many use the US layout and have little need for input methods), then C-\ 
should not automatically select an input method the first time it is 
hit. Then the user will be prompted and can hit C-g. This will overcome 
the problem that if it is hit by accident by someone who knows nothing 
about input methods, they have no way of knowing what has gone wrong.