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: delete-char and composed characters Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:29:02 +0200 Message-ID: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1224854974 13801 80.91.229.12 (24 Oct 2008 13:29:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:29:34 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 24 15:30:32 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 1KtMkH-0003YX-Az for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:30:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38779 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KtMjA-0000CZ-Le for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:29:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KtMj5-0000CQ-KF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:29:15 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KtMj3-0000C1-1i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:29:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=46916 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KtMj2-0000By-UT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:29:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout4.012.net.il ([84.95.2.10]:64176) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KtMj2-0002wp-Nz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:29:13 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.233.32]) by i_mtaout4.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) with ESMTPA id <0K98008ZUW70QLA1@i_mtaout4.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:30:41 +0200 (IST) 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:104944 Archived-At: It looks like C-f and C-b move by composed character positions on the screen, but DEL and C-d delete individual characters (i.e. a single Unicode codepoint). For example, after typing "C-h H", go to the parenthesized text in the Bengali line and hit C-d. You will see that you need to type C-d 5 times to delete the entire text in parentheses, but C-f traverses it in only 2 keystrokes. Do we have a single-codepoint variant of C-f and C-b? If not, should we? I think we should, because without them, there's no simple way of deleting or editing just one codepoint in the middle of a composition. Or did I miss something?