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: delete-char and composed characters Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 00:20:00 +0200 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1224973222 10004 80.91.229.12 (25 Oct 2008 22:20:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 22:20:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, handa@m17n.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 26 00:21:23 2008 connect(): Connection refused 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 4.50) id 1KtrVZ-0003S4-Ti for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 00:21:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54453 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KtrUT-0007FH-LG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Oct 2008 18:20:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KtrUN-0007En-Ug for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Oct 2008 18:20:07 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KtrUM-0007Ea-QG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Oct 2008 18:20:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=57933 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KtrUM-0007EX-OI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Oct 2008 18:20:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout4.012.net.il ([84.95.2.10]:14233) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KtrUM-0007eT-3y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Oct 2008 18:20:06 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.116.193]) by i_mtaout4.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) with ESMTPA id <0K9B00CTVFFWBB71@i_mtaout4.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 00:21:37 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9.1 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:105008 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 14:19:14 -0400 > Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > >> > 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. This is IMO the least we should do for Emacs 23.1, but it should be a user-level command, or better yet, some variation of normal motion commands, because we don't really want the user to mess with composition directly.