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From: Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@math.ntnu.no>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Input method or help feature needed
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 21:24:15 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110217.212415.1506249870047884288.hanche@math.ntnu.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87aahu30d5.fsf@escher.home>

[Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net> (2011-02-17 19:52:06 UTC)]

> The ucs-insert command already does this: typing
> 
> C-x 8 RET * dotless TAB TAB
> 
> brings up a completions buffer containing all unicode character names
> matching "DOTLESS" -- including LATIN SMALL LETTER DOTLESS I.

But I don't think it is obvious from the documentation that the tab
completion recognizes wildcards. Starting from C-h k C-x 8 RET and
following a link we are led to the docstring for read-char-by-name,
which only says

  You can type a few of first letters of the Unicode name and use
  completion.

Adding a note about wildcards to that docstring would be helpful?
After a look at the source, I suppose the wildcard feature is provided
by completing-read, but I certainly didn't have a clue about that
until now.

- Harald



  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-17 20:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-17 19:14 Input method or help feature needed Richard Stallman
2011-02-17 19:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-17 19:52   ` Stephen Berman
2011-02-17 20:24     ` Harald Hanche-Olsen [this message]
2011-02-18 10:53       ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-18 15:46         ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-18 20:00           ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-17 22:05     ` Stefan Monnier
2011-02-18 21:24     ` Richard Stallman
2011-02-19  7:49       ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-19  8:01         ` David Kastrup
2011-02-19  8:37           ` Miles Bader
2011-02-20  0:30           ` Richard Stallman
2011-02-20  0:29         ` Richard Stallman
2011-02-20  3:59           ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-20 21:01             ` Richard Stallman
2011-02-18 21:24   ` Richard Stallman
2011-02-17 19:31 ` Justin Lilly
2011-02-17 19:41 ` Tassilo Horn
2011-02-18 21:24   ` Richard Stallman
2011-02-19  7:30     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-19  8:18       ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-02-19  8:33         ` Miles Bader
2011-03-04  9:10     ` Kevin Rodgers
2011-02-17 20:26 ` Paul Eggert
2011-02-17 22:50 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-02-18  0:09   ` Miles Bader
2011-02-18  5:13     ` Werner LEMBERG
2011-02-18  8:37     ` tomas
2011-02-18  8:41       ` Miles Bader
2011-02-18 11:27         ` Kenichi Handa
2011-02-20  8:27         ` tomas
2011-02-20 10:41           ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-20 11:16             ` David Kastrup
2011-02-20 21:01             ` Richard Stallman
2011-02-20 21:30               ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-21  2:53                 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-02-21 22:35                 ` Richard Stallman
2011-02-21  0:59               ` Kenichi Handa
2011-02-21  7:02                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-21  7:47                   ` Kenichi Handa
2011-02-21  8:25                     ` Miles Bader
2011-02-21  8:29                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-21 11:14                       ` Kenichi Handa
2011-02-21 12:25                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-22  0:55                           ` Kenichi Handa
2011-02-22  1:23                             ` Miles Bader
2011-02-21 22:36                         ` Richard Stallman
2011-02-21 22:36                 ` Richard Stallman
2011-02-18  8:43       ` David Kastrup
2011-02-20  8:30         ` tomas
2011-02-20 10:45           ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-18 21:25   ` Richard Stallman
2011-02-19  7:52     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-20  0:29       ` Richard Stallman
2011-02-20  7:43         ` James Cloos
2011-02-20 21:01           ` Richard Stallman
2011-02-20 22:45             ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2011-02-21 22:35               ` Richard Stallman
2011-02-21 22:35               ` Richard Stallman
2011-02-22  6:05                 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2011-02-22 20:25                   ` Richard Stallman
2011-02-19 19:26     ` James Cloos
2011-02-20 21:00       ` Richard Stallman
2011-02-20 21:33         ` Drew Adams
2011-02-21 22:36           ` Richard Stallman
2011-02-21 22:51             ` Drew Adams
2011-02-22 20:25               ` Richard Stallman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-02-18 10:39 Андрей Парамонов

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