unofficial mirror of bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
From: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
To: Leo Liu <sdl.web@gmail.com>
Cc: 19338@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19338: [PATCHv2 1/2] descr-text: add `describe-char-eldoc' describing character at point
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 18:21:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xa1t7fxy9k5u.fsf@mina86.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87iohiunva.fsf@gmail.com>

> On 2014-12-11 17:02 +0100, Michal Nazarewicz wrote:
>> `describe-char-eldoc' displays information about character at point,
>> +and can be used as a default value of `eldoc-documentation-function'.

On Fri, Dec 12 2014, Leo Liu <sdl.web@gmail.com> wrote:
> Boy! don't we have enough ways to annoy users?

It's not enabled by default and you don't have to use it.

>> It is +useful when, for example, one needs to distinguish various
>> spaces (e.g. ] [, +] [, ] [, etc.) while using mono-spaced font.

> C-x =

C-x = (i) is two keystrokes, and (ii) does not even give character's
name.

C-u C-x = (i) is three keystrokes, (ii) pops up a new window, which
later needs to be closed somehow, (iii) contents of which is actually
terribly hard to read (e.g. name of the character is somewhere in the
middle).

-- 
Best regards,                                         _     _
.o. | Liege of Serenely Enlightened Majesty of      o' \,=./ `o
..o | Computer Science,  Michał “mina86” Nazarewicz    (o o)
ooo +--<mpn@google.com>--<xmpp:mina86@jabber.org>--ooO--(_)--Ooo--





  reply	other threads:[~2014-12-11 17:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-10 17:24 bug#19338: [PATCH 0/3] Implement an ElDoc function which describes char at point Michal Nazarewicz
2014-12-10 17:49 ` bug#19338: [PATCH 1/3] eldoc: use default eldoc function if local one gives no results Michal Nazarewicz
2014-12-10 17:49   ` bug#19338: [PATCH 2/3] descr-text: add `describe-char-eldoc' describing character at point Michal Nazarewicz
2014-12-10 17:49   ` bug#19338: [PATCH 3/3] eldoc: convert `eldoc-documentation-function' into a defcustom Michal Nazarewicz
2014-12-10 20:08     ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-10 20:05   ` bug#19338: [PATCH 1/3] eldoc: use default eldoc function if local one gives no results Stefan Monnier
2014-12-10 21:46     ` Michal Nazarewicz
2014-12-11  2:38       ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-11 16:02         ` bug#19338: [PATCHv2 1/2] descr-text: add `describe-char-eldoc' describing character at point Michal Nazarewicz
2014-12-11 16:02           ` bug#19338: [PATCHv2 2/2] eldoc: convert `eldoc-documentation-function' into a defcustom Michal Nazarewicz
2015-01-20 14:08             ` Michal Nazarewicz
2014-12-11 16:56           ` bug#19338: [PATCHv2 1/2] descr-text: add `describe-char-eldoc' describing character at point Leo Liu
2014-12-11 17:21             ` Michal Nazarewicz [this message]
2014-12-14 19:46           ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-14 20:40             ` bug#19338: [PATCHv3 " Michal Nazarewicz
2014-12-11 16:59         ` bug#19338: [PATCH 1/3] eldoc: use default eldoc function if local one gives no results Stefan Monnier

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

  List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=xa1t7fxy9k5u.fsf@mina86.com \
    --to=mina86@mina86.com \
    --cc=19338@debbugs.gnu.org \
    --cc=sdl.web@gmail.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox

	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).