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Re: describe-char should display the character's Unicode name
From: |
Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
Re: describe-char should display the character's Unicode name |
Date: |
Sat, 19 Jul 2008 03:45:23 +0300 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
> SM> Actually, we should have completion for input methods. It would be handy
> SM> for things like the TeX input method. Currently if I hit TAB after \a
> SM> I do get some sort of "list of possible completions", but it's displayed
> SM> as a tree which is kind of hard to read and I can select one of them
> SM> from the list. Also TAB after \rig doesn't complete to \right as normal
> SM> completion would.
>
> It doesn't work for cyrillic-translit, for example, so I'd guess it
> requires core changes to the quail code.
It works for the TeX input method because its arg `translation-keys'
of `quail-define-package' contains explicit key bindings:
'(("\t" . quail-completion))
> The other issue is that TAB has a meaning while you're typing, so if
> you type /'TAB in cyrillic-translit, you'd get two completion
> candidates (/' and /'') instead of ’ followed by the TAB character.
> I think that's less useful to the user, since hitting TAB is so common
> in all Emacs modes.
It is difficult to find a completion key other than TAB. But at least
quail-completion on TAB is not an unexpected key while input is not finished.
> Regardless I agree that it's useful to do this, because so many quail
> input methods have more mappings than an user can easily remember.
>
> Maybe it could be bound to M-TAB. I don't know if it can be a callable
> function, because it needs to be incorporated into the quail keystroke
> flow.
M-TAB is not a reliable key since often it is configured to switch windows.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
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- Re: describe-char should display the character's Unicode name, Kenichi Handa, 2008/07/17
- Re: describe-char should display the character's Unicode name, Miles Bader, 2008/07/17
- Re: describe-char should display the character's Unicode name, Ted Zlatanov, 2008/07/18
- RE: describe-char should display the character's Unicode name, Drew Adams, 2008/07/18
- Re: describe-char should display the character's Unicode name, Stefan Monnier, 2008/07/18
- Re: describe-char should display the character's Unicode name, Ted Zlatanov, 2008/07/18
- Re: describe-char should display the character's Unicode name,
Juri Linkov <=
- Re: describe-char should display the character's Unicode name, Ted Zlatanov, 2008/07/21
- Re: describe-char should display the character's Unicode name, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/07/21
- Re: describe-char should display the character's Unicode name, David De La Harpe Golden, 2008/07/21
- Re: describe-char should display the character's Unicode name, Juri Linkov, 2008/07/22
- Re: describe-char should display the character's Unicode name, Ted Zlatanov, 2008/07/23
- Re: describe-char should display the character's Unicode name, Juri Linkov, 2008/07/23
- Re: describe-char should display the character's Unicode name, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/07/23
- Re: describe-char should display the character's Unicode name, Ted Zlatanov, 2008/07/24
- Re: describe-char should display the character's Unicode name, Lennart Borgman, 2008/07/24
- Re: describe-char should display the character's Unicode name, Ted Zlatanov, 2008/07/24