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Re: Input method or help feature needed
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Input method or help feature needed |
Date: |
Sat, 19 Feb 2011 09:49:08 +0200 |
> Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:24:50 -0500
> From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
>
> C-x 8 RET * dotless TAB TAB
>
> brings up a completions buffer containing all unicode character names
> matching "DOTLESS" -- including LATIN SMALL LETTER DOTLESS I.
>
> That is trying to do this job, but using completion as the interface
> is inconvenient. I don't want to have to navigate that buffer by
> typing TAB. I am not sure what the * does, and I would never have
> thought of typing it.
Yes, the * feature is hard to discover. It was only documented in the
Emacs manual, and is hardly intuitive for Emacs old-timers such as
myself.
> It takes a long time for the buffer to appear. Perhaps that is
> inevitable, but having it happen in the middle of things was
> confusing.
There are many characters in the Unicode database, so slow machines
will take time generating the list, especially if that's the first
time you are invoking "C-x 8 RET".
> Is there a faster way to generate such a list?
Try "M-x list-character-sets", where you could type RET on the
unicode-bmp charset and have it displayed. If you already know that
there's a charset named "unicode-bmp", you could use "M-x
list-charset-chars" instead.
We should probably enhance list-charset-chars with at least the
following 3 features:
. Show the Unicode name of a character in a tooltip or by typing RET
on its image;
. Show input methods that support a character;
. Allow to insert a character at point in another buffer (although
M-w followed by C-y will do as a poor-man replacement).
> I'd rather have it ordered by languages than alphabetically.
Unicode character names already are ordered by languages (well,
almost: they are ordered by _scripts_, so only single-language scripts
will give you exactly what you want; there's no "turkish", for
example, only "latin").
- Input method or help feature needed, Richard Stallman, 2011/02/17
- Re: Input method or help feature needed, Stefan Monnier, 2011/02/17
- Re: Input method or help feature needed, Richard Stallman, 2011/02/18
- Re: Input method or help feature needed,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Input method or help feature needed, David Kastrup, 2011/02/19
- Re: Input method or help feature needed, Miles Bader, 2011/02/19
- Re: Input method or help feature needed, Richard Stallman, 2011/02/19
- Re: Input method or help feature needed, Richard Stallman, 2011/02/19
- Re: Input method or help feature needed, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/02/19
- Re: Input method or help feature needed, Richard Stallman, 2011/02/20
Re: Input method or help feature needed, Richard Stallman, 2011/02/18
Re: Input method or help feature needed, Justin Lilly, 2011/02/17
Re: Input method or help feature needed, Tassilo Horn, 2011/02/17