From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Feature suggestion Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2012 11:47:43 +0300 Message-ID: <83haumur4g.fsf@gnu.org> References: <838vg71s69.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1339145284 21698 80.91.229.3 (8 Jun 2012 08:48:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 08:48:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 08 10:48:02 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ScurO-0000Wn-B7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2012 10:47:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44034 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ScurO-0001bN-7k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2012 04:47:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:43696) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ScurH-0001WM-30 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2012 04:47:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ScurA-00012p-LJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2012 04:47:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:63030) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ScurA-00012W-DG; Fri, 08 Jun 2012 04:47:44 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0M5A00800IZ86M00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Fri, 08 Jun 2012 11:47:42 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.210.75]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0M5A008D2J3H1G60@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Fri, 08 Jun 2012 11:47:42 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:150829 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2012 16:33:58 -0400 > From: Richard Stallman > CC: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Type "C-x 8 RET" followed by the hexadecimal code of the character > (shown by "C-u C-x ="), and Bob's your uncle. > > Would mentioning that in the text do the job? > > Yes, it would. That is an obscure command, > and I would not know what search string to use > to find it with apropos. > > I think there is a way to enter characters by their long names, too, > but I don't recall what it is. It would be good to mention that > method too. I've done both in revision 108521 on the trunk. It now says to input: type "C-x 8 RET HEX-CODEPOINT" or "C-x 8 RET NAME"