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Re: Entering Unicode characters
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Entering Unicode characters |
Date: |
Mon, 25 Jan 2016 11:18:34 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> > "C-x 8 RET" should give you any unicode character by name.
>> That is useless in practice, because it requires users to know these
>> long and often obscure names. When I wanted to do this, I was unable
>> to do it with C-x 8. I was totally stumped! All I could do was try
>> to find a file which had the character I wanted.
> It's a _lot_ easier if completion matching is at least substring,
Which it already is by default.
> But yes, some of the char names are hard to imagine (and thus
> match). It would help if a user could narrow the choices by
> specifying a character category, for example.
I think for the cases corresponding to those obsolete iso-* packages,
even better would be to provide a "base character" and be offered
a choice among all those chars that build on it.
Stefan
- RE: A proposal for removing obsolete packages, (continued)
- RE: A proposal for removing obsolete packages, Drew Adams, 2016/01/23
- Re: A proposal for removing obsolete packages, Andrew Hyatt, 2016/01/23
- Re: A proposal for removing obsolete packages, Andrew Hyatt, 2016/01/23
- RE: A proposal for removing obsolete packages, Drew Adams, 2016/01/23
- Re: A proposal for removing obsolete packages, Andrew Hyatt, 2016/01/24
- RE: A proposal for removing obsolete packages, Drew Adams, 2016/01/24
- Re: A proposal for removing obsolete packages, Richard Stallman, 2016/01/24
- Re: A proposal for removing obsolete packages, Andrew Hyatt, 2016/01/24
- Entering Unicode characters, Richard Stallman, 2016/01/25
- RE: Entering Unicode characters, Drew Adams, 2016/01/25
- Re: Entering Unicode characters,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: Entering Unicode characters, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/01/25
- Re: Entering Unicode characters, Vivek Dasmohapatra, 2016/01/25
- Re: Entering Unicode characters, Teemu Likonen, 2016/01/25
- Re: Entering Unicode characters, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/01/25
- Re: Entering Unicode characters, Vivek Dasmohapatra, 2016/01/25
- Re: Entering Unicode characters, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/01/25
- Re: Entering Unicode characters, Marcin Borkowski, 2016/01/25
- RE: Entering Unicode characters, Drew Adams, 2016/01/25
- Re: Entering Unicode characters, Oleh Krehel, 2016/01/26
- Re: Entering Unicode characters, Tianxiang Xiong, 2016/01/25