That's correct. That code might be an overkill for people who never needed
org entities.

I thought that I have never used `C-u` before plain single characters, so
why not make use of that in org mode. With that code in place, inserting an
org entity is now C-u away :)

If I happen to need org entities for nonascii chars, I can associate them
to plain letters like `a`, `b`, `c`... in org-entities-user. For example,
`C-u c` can be used to enter copyright symbol org entity.

I haven't yet used `sgml-name-char`, thanks for the tip.

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Kaushal Modi
On Sep 19, 2015 3:26 AM, "Eric Abrahamsen" <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:

> Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I got really interested in org-entities (to deal with the case I
> > mentioned in the first email in this thread like \ast{}shrug\ast{})
> > and came up with this:
>
> [...]
>
> > Question to the list is: Does this advise mask any useful
> > functionality of org-self-insert-command?
>
> This is very cool, in principle! My first reaction would be: people will
> probably just want a single command that inserts an entity, either by
> name or by the character itself. Tapping into basic keystrokes like this
> is very clever, but people only like clever when it's clever exactly the
> way they want it, and the more clever a thing is the more opinions
> diverge, if that makes sense. Why not just do something like, for
> example, `sgml-name-char'?
>
>
>