From: VanL <van@scratch.space>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: 36454@debbugs.gnu.org, larsi@gnus.org, mrsebastianurban@gmail.com
Subject: bug#36454: 26.2.90; feature request - Insert char by hex tab completion or C-x 8 RET ffe <TAB>
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2019 18:04:37 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <D4C60C38-8BBD-4C2A-9A18-82868ABBC461@scratch.space> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1hobyU-0007I1-1d@fencepost.gnu.org>
> On 20 Jul 2019, at 09:07, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> Completion is a very poor means for discovery and browsing.
>
> There could be better, but I have used completion with C-x 8 RET
> in the past few weeks to discover characters.
That was how I used to find characters before purely by chance I found
https://unicode.org/charts/
and, there, it is possible to see 'ffea' in context with its nearest neighbors in UFF00.pdf. For TAB completion on 'ffe' I was wanting the a..c range and expected the widest extraction to include the 0..f range for 16 completions.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-20 8:04 UTC|newest]
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2019-07-18 20:44 ` bug#36454: 26.2.90; feature request - Insert char by hex tab completion or C-x 8 RET ffe <TAB> Drew Adams
2019-07-19 6:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-19 23:07 ` Richard Stallman
2019-07-20 8:04 ` VanL [this message]
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2019-07-18 16:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-01 2:39 VanL
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2019-07-15 16:03 ` Drew Adams
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