From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Input method or help feature needed
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:43:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bp29ag2b.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20110218083736.GA12190@tomas
tomas@tuxteam.de writes:
> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 09:09:44AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
>
> [partially enter Unicode name]
>
>> Yeah you need to know or guess part of the name, but the unicode names
>> are reasonably well chosen, pretty regular, and all you need to know is
>> _part_ of it; once you can guess that, it's often easy to narrow the
>> number of choices enough to choose from the completion list... (often
>> I'll guess a number of common terms for something, and get a hit after
>> 2-3)
>
> As an additional thought: this won't work for non-English speakers,
> right?
Let's worry about that after the user interface and manuals of Emacs
have been localized. At the current point of time, this consideration
seems a bit silly.
--
David Kastrup
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-18 8:43 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
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 [this message]
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
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2011-02-18 10:39 Андрей Парамонов
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