Re: inputting characters by hexadigit

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:03:55 -0400 Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote: 

SM> Maybe I misunderstand what you mean by word syntax.
SM> Are you referring to something more like partial-completion-mode?

>> That's close, but it looks for abbreviations rather than categories, and
>> is nicest when you know the word you want in advance.  When you don't,
>> you still have to walk through the list of candidates.

SM> So I indeed do not know what you mean by word syntax.  I.e. were do your
SM> categories come from?

Sorry if I'm confusing you or myself.

The categories are what you get when you split all the candidate strings
based on the word syntax.  partial-completion-mode does the same thing,
the difference is that it expects you to know that you can use z-x-y
because there's a zeta-xray-yogurt variable.  My proposal tries to
display just the categories to condense the list of candidates, refining
and digging deeper into the categories whenever possible until there's a
small enough list of candidates.

Ted