From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Input method or help feature needed Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 14:00:32 -0600 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87hbc1xgdb.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <8339nmwjf2.fsf@gnu.org> <87aahu30d5.fsf@escher.home> <20110217.212415.1506249870047884288.hanche@math.ntnu.no> <83sjvlvckb.fsf@gnu.org> <83ipwhuyz8.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1298059273 30845 80.91.229.12 (18 Feb 2011 20:01:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 20:01:13 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 18 21:01:09 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PqWVm-00046W-79 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 21:01:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39470 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PqWVe-0007f7-2z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 15:00:58 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=50174 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PqWVV-0007cU-QL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 15:00:52 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PqWVR-0007OH-Ok for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 15:00:46 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:46908) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PqWVR-0007OD-H7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 15:00:45 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PqWVP-0003wp-Hb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 21:00:43 +0100 Original-Received: from 38.98.147.130 ([38.98.147.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 21:00:43 +0100 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 21:00:43 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 32 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.98.147.130 X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:KpCBEXAorMWjCX2oQjJn6J7GkmA= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:136188 Archived-At: On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:46:51 +0200 Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 12:53:24 +0200 >> From: Eli Zaretskii >> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org >> >> > 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. >> >> If someone tells which function implements this feature, I will add >> the appropriate information to the affected doc strings. EZ> It seems to be a general feature of completion. So I just added to EZ> the doc string a note about that possibility, since in this case it EZ> sounds important, due to the large number of potential completion EZ> candidates if one just types TAB TAB with an empty minibuffer. For this specific completion (by character name), wouldn't it be nice to also show the glyph as part of the completion string? It shouldn't be required to complete the string, though. In general I find *browsing* the Unicode charts very rewarding, as opposed to looking for something specific. As Werner Lemberg suggested: WL> An interface which resembles these tables could be helpful: WL> http://www.unicode.org/charts/collation/ ...although that specific interface doesn't show the character names. Ted