From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Jacobson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: what-cursor-position and multibyte chars Date: 24 Apr 2002 16:52:56 +0800 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: Reply-To: jidanni@yam.com.tw NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1019638624 21534 127.0.0.1 (24 Apr 2002 08:57:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 08:57:04 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 170IaG-0005bD-00 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 10:57:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 170IaH-0005K8-00; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 04:57:05 -0400 Original-Received: from chx400.switch.ch ([130.59.10.2]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 170IWd-0005CG-00 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 04:53:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.fu-berlin.de ([160.45.11.165]) by chx400.switch.ch with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 170IWa-0000us-00 for gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 10:53:16 +0200 Original-Received: by mail.fu-berlin.de (Smail3.2.0.98) from Curry.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (160.45.10.36) with esmtp id ; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 10:53:15 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: by Curry.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (Smail3.2.0.98) from news.fu-berlin.de with bsmtp id ; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 10:53:14 +0200 (MEST) Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org Original-Path: 61-227-47-224.hinet-ip.hinet.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 20 X-Orig-NNTP-Posting-Host: 61-227-47-224.hinet-ip.hinet.net (61.227.47.224) X-Orig-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1019638393 8180440 61.227.47.224 (16 [99749]) X-Orig-Path: localhost.localdomain!nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:910 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:910 [oops, posted to utils] When I do C-x =, what I am really looking for is file code: 0xFA 0xF3 but I have to do C-u C-x = to see it. It seems more useful than any of the stuff from plain C-x =, at least for a Chinese big5 char. I have to type an extra C-u for each one. Sometimes I even type C-u x by accident. [Inserts xxxx] Wait, I see the problem, in Help: If the character is encoded into one byte, that code is shown in hex. If the character is encoded into more than one byte, just "..." is shown. Well, I'd say the "file code" would be more valuable here than the "..." or that old octal jazz in the mini-buffer. I see there is also (describe-char-after), OK, but let's say we just want the minibuffer report, real brief... -- http://jidanni.org/ Taiwan(04)25854780