From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: VanL Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#36454: 26.2.90; feature request - Insert char by hex tab completion or C-x 8 RET ffe Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2019 18:04:37 +1000 Message-ID: References: <87r27016xo.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> <4087f726-f9e7-4bc5-a9b3-7d24d9b7f7c5@default> <2f469306-98d3-8735-4d0d-61aae53321d0@gmail.com> <8a8360df-afe2-4ae8-abac-96e7691f52a6@default> <27479297-ab97-106b-7325-5ac6ef5d0b92@gmail.com> <1981011f-2e19-4f4b-a7ac-8ccd15298b1a@default> <83k1cfy8mp.fsf@gnu.org> <6251d2e2-5366-4c06-8c42-811d1aa7d5e3@default> <831rynwah9.fsf@gnu.org> <83wogev83t.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 9.3 \(3124\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="29931"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: 36454@debbugs.gnu.org, larsi@gnus.org, mrsebastianurban@gmail.com To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 20 10:05:08 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hokMd-0007ew-Oq for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Jul 2019 10:05:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50008 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hokMc-0005ZL-P8 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Jul 2019 04:05:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:44851) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hokMZ-0005XA-Eg for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Jul 2019 04:05:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hokMY-0007Eo-Cu for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Jul 2019 04:05:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:47973) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hokMY-0007ER-9d for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Jul 2019 04:05:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hokMY-00087F-3Z for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Jul 2019 04:05:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: VanL Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2019 08:05:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 36454 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: wontfix Original-Received: via spool by 36454-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B36454.156360989131175 (code B ref 36454); Sat, 20 Jul 2019 08:05:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 36454) by debbugs.gnu.org; 20 Jul 2019 08:04:51 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56794 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hokMM-00086l-Tw for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 20 Jul 2019 04:04:51 -0400 Original-Received: from relay1-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.183.193]:37191) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hokMK-00086b-5F for 36454@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 20 Jul 2019 04:04:49 -0400 X-Originating-IP: 193.119.112.173 Original-Received: from epi.local (193-119-112-173.tpgi.com.au [193.119.112.173]) (Authenticated sender: van@scratch.space) by relay1-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9E23A240010; Sat, 20 Jul 2019 08:04:42 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3124) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:163447 Archived-At: > On 20 Jul 2019, at 09:07, Richard Stallman wrote: >=20 >> Completion is a very poor means for discovery and browsing. >=20 > 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.=