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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: delete-char and composed characters
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 14:19:14 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvd4hoh74o.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1KtXI3-0002TO-Ep@etlken.m17n.org> (Kenichi Handa's message of "Sat, 25 Oct 2008 09:46:03 +0900")

>> > Do we have a single-codepoint variant of C-f and C-b?  If not, should we?
>> Where/how would we display the cursor in order for the user to know on
>> which codepoint he is?
> I'm not sure if we need such a command or not, but when you
> run such a command, it is possible disable the automatic
> composition temporarily for that part.

Indeed, that's how it currently works with the `composition' text
property.  E.g. I typically place a λ composition over the `lambda'
symbols in Lisp and if I somehow force point to land in the middle of
`lambda', then the display is temporarily changed to show "lambda".


        Stefan




  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-25 18:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-24 13:29 delete-char and composed characters Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-24 18:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-10-24 19:47   ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-25  0:49     ` Kenichi Handa
2008-10-25  8:01       ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-25  0:46   ` Kenichi Handa
2008-10-25 18:19     ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2008-10-25 22:20       ` Eli Zaretskii

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