From: Visuwesh <visuweshm@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 56237@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#56237: 29.0.50; delete-forward-char fails to delete character
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2022 22:36:31 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bkuf9wx4.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83v8sn8ir9.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 26 Jun 2022 19:57:46 +0300")
[ஞாயிறு ஜூன் 26, 2022] Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Visuwesh <visuweshm@gmail.com>
>> Cc: 56237@debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2022 22:17:53 +0530
>>
>> [ஞாயிறு ஜூன் 26, 2022] Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>
>> > Sorry, I misunderstood the report.
>> >
>> > I tried to fix this now on master.
>>
>> Thanks for the quick fix! Unfortunately, delete-forward-char still
>> deletes two clusters instead of one in "ப்போ". :(
>
> They aren't two clusters, they are two graphemes that are part of a
> single grapheme cluster.
>
> Invoke find-composition, and you will see that it returns a single
> composition there.
>
If find-composition is indeed right, then the return value is very
unintuvitive as a native speaker: ப் and போ are two separate characters
and combining them into a single cluster is weird...
Am I right in thinking that a grapheme cluster is made up of characters
that can be grouped together to produce a single "letter" on screen? If
so, the behaviour of find-composition is still confusing since I need to
say C-f twice to move over ப்போ.
>> I.e.,
>>
>> |ப்போ becomes |
>>
>> where | denotes the point.
>
> This is the intended behavior.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-06-26 17:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-06-26 16:07 bug#56237: 29.0.50; delete-forward-char fails to delete character visuweshm
2022-06-26 16:13 ` Visuwesh
2022-06-26 16:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-26 16:24 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-26 16:25 ` Visuwesh
2022-06-26 16:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-26 16:47 ` Visuwesh
2022-06-26 16:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-26 17:06 ` Visuwesh [this message]
2022-06-26 17:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-26 18:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-27 5:31 ` Visuwesh
2022-06-27 5:47 ` Visuwesh
2022-06-27 12:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-27 14:24 ` Visuwesh
2022-06-27 15:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-02 7:03 ` Visuwesh
2022-07-16 12:50 ` Visuwesh
2022-07-16 13:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-16 13:43 ` Visuwesh
2022-06-26 16:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
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