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Re: faster unicode character name completion
From: |
Miles Bader |
Subject: |
Re: faster unicode character name completion |
Date: |
Sat, 05 Dec 2009 07:38:33 +0900 |
Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
>> The drawback of the new code is that one can see only the
>> list of the first words of character names in the completion
>> buffer at once by C-x 8 RET TAB, instead of all of the
>> unicode character names.
>
> That's a pretty serious drawback as it prevents uses such as
> C-x 8 RET *arro TAB.
If so, I think this change is unacceptable -- the only sane way to
search for characters in huge unicode name space with the existing
completion code is to use "*".
Because of the way unicode characters named, using large numbers of
"noise" words, it's often surprisingly hard to remember the true name of
a character, much less find it given a vague idea, if one is required to
type the name in order...
-Miles
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Year, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
- Emacs 23.2 Pretest next week, Chong Yidong, 2009/12/03
- faster unicode character name completion, Kenichi Handa, 2009/12/04
- Re: faster unicode character name completion, Deniz Dogan, 2009/12/04
- Re: faster unicode character name completion, Juanma Barranquero, 2009/12/04
- Re: faster unicode character name completion, Florian Beck, 2009/12/04
- Re: faster unicode character name completion, Stefan Monnier, 2009/12/04
- Re: faster unicode character name completion,
Miles Bader <=
- Re: faster unicode character name completion, Kenichi Handa, 2009/12/06
- Re: faster unicode character name completion, Kenichi Handa, 2009/12/07
- Re: faster unicode character name completion, Stefan Monnier, 2009/12/07
- Re: faster unicode character name completion, Juri Linkov, 2009/12/07
- Re: faster unicode character name completion, Stefan Monnier, 2009/12/07
- Re: faster unicode character name completion, Miles Bader, 2009/12/07
- Re: faster unicode character name completion, Kenichi Handa, 2009/12/07
- Re: faster unicode character name completion, Stefan Monnier, 2009/12/07
- Re: faster unicode character name completion, Chong Yidong, 2009/12/08
- Re: faster unicode character name completion, Kenichi Handa, 2009/12/08