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From: | Juri Linkov |
Subject: | Re: emacs-28 a866674b2a: Fix inaccuracies in "lax search" documentation |
Date: | Thu, 01 Sep 2022 10:22:55 +0300 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
>>> I have one comment: using `read-char-by-name' is kind >>> of cumbersome when all you want to do is find the equivalents to >>> e.g. 'a'. Would it make sense to have something similar to >>> `read-char-by-name' but that accepted single characters *without* >>> treating those as hex? Youʼd still be able to enter single digit >>> hex characters by prefixing them with '0'. >> Wouldn't it be cleaner to use just (read-char-from-minibuffer "Character: ") >> where you can either type a character directly or use 'C-x 8 RET' >> to insert a character by its name. > > I lost the beginning of this discussion: why can't we unify > `read-char-from-minibuffer` and `read-char-by-name' into a single function? Robert sent a patch that does this by adding a new arg ALLOW-SINGLE to `read-char-by-name'.
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