Re: Input method or help feature needed

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:46:51 +0200 Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote: 

>> Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 12:53:24 +0200
>> From: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
>> Cc: address@hidden
>> 
>> > Adding a note about wildcards to that docstring would be helpful?
>> > After a look at the source, I suppose the wildcard feature is provided
>> > by completing-read, but I certainly didn't have a clue about that
>> > until now.
>> 
>> If someone tells which function implements this feature, I will add
>> the appropriate information to the affected doc strings.

EZ> It seems to be a general feature of completion.  So I just added to
EZ> the doc string a note about that possibility, since in this case it
EZ> sounds important, due to the large number of potential completion
EZ> candidates if one just types TAB TAB with an empty minibuffer.

For this specific completion (by character name), wouldn't it be nice to
also show the glyph as part of the completion string?  It shouldn't be
required to complete the string, though.

In general I find *browsing* the Unicode charts very rewarding, as
opposed to looking for something specific.  As Werner Lemberg suggested:

WL> An interface which resembles these tables could be helpful:
WL> http://www.unicode.org/charts/collation/

...although that specific interface doesn't show the character names.

Ted