From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#10477: zap-to-char should allow picking from history Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 19:47:36 -0800 Message-ID: <8503B34E31CE404EB24434CAFAA96B25@us.oracle.com> References: <87boq5g2y5.fsf@jidanni.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1326599305 19216 80.91.229.12 (15 Jan 2012 03:48:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 03:48:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 10477@debbugs.gnu.org To: Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 15 04:48:21 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RmH4u-0002K4-SH for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Jan 2012 04:48:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58634 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RmH4u-0003lp-6C for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Sun, 15 Jan 2012 03:47:45 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt111.oracle.com (abhmt111.oracle.com [141.146.116.63]) by acsmt356.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id q0F3li1p011749; Sat, 14 Jan 2012 21:47:44 -0600 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/10.159.45.121) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Sat, 14 Jan 2012 19:47:43 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 Thread-Index: AczTJmOXO2m1xdl4ROuQEDhDgnifcwAEVe3Q X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 In-reply-to: <87boq5g2y5.fsf@jidanni.org> X-Source-IP: acsinet22.oracle.com [141.146.126.238] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090202.4F124C62.0009,ss=1,re=0.000,fgs=0 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:55756 Archived-At: > DA> The idea is to try to make it easier to zap to Unicode > DA> (e.g. Chinese) chars that you have already inserted. > DA> The tradeoff is that zapping to a TAB or C-q char > DA> requires you to hit `C-q' first. > > Well pros with embedded control characters probably have > other means of zapping. > > DA> (I don't really know whether completing against a char > DA> name is necessarily easier than "to type the actual > DA> character back in again". Completing against a > DA> history list instead of all Unicode chars as candidates, > DA> the thought was that it might be. Dunno.) > > I don't know if "completion" is relevant in the case of just > one character. All I know is hitting one or two up arrows > and then RET is what the user would like to do. You can do that as well in Icicles during completion. You have the choice: type chars to match candidates (in this case, Unicode char names) or cycle using, e.g., arrow keys. E.g., you can do this: M-z TAB ...