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From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
Cc: Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com>,
	Help GNU Emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Unicode progress tooltip?
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2020 08:38:57 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201013053857.GG31408@protected.rcdrun.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2mu0r3g6w.fsf@gmail.com>

* Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> [2020-10-12 13:18]:
> >>>>> On Sun, 11 Oct 2020 22:22:58 +0530, Pankaj Jangid <pankaj@codeisgreat.org> said:
> 
>     Pankaj> On Sun, Oct 11 2020, Skip Montanaro wrote:
>     >> I have a US layout keyboard. I occasionally need to type non-ASCII stuff
>     >> like ¾, ₤ or é. I've now memorized a few Compose key sequences (environment
>     >> is Ubuntu 20.04), but golly gee, there are a lot of them! I noticed that
>     >> when I mash down on the Compose key a little tooltip pops up
>     >> 
>     >> [image: Screenshot from 2020-10-11 10-59-29.png]
>     >> 
>     >> and is extended as more keys are pressed. Once a complete sequence is
>     >> entered, the appropriate glyph is rendered and the tooltip dismissed. This
>     >> is very nice.
> 
>     Pankaj> You need two things:
> 
>     Pankaj> (1) Install which-key package, then
>     Pankaj> (2) Press ‘C-x 8’ (then wait for a second)
> 
>     Pankaj> In step (2) if you press RET instead of waiting then you can enter
>     Pankaj> UNICODE CHARACTER NAME also.
> 
>     Pankaj> The characters you have entered are unicode - FRACTION THREE QUARTER,
>     Pankaj> POUND SIGN, LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE
> 
> Or you can search through the available names by prepending a '*'. Try
> 
> C-x 8 RET *FRACTION TAB TAB

It is good using there some completion like ido, helm, etc.

There is one sign named HEXAGRAM FOR PROGRESS ䷢ but I do not see it
with DejaVu Sans Mono.

Jean



  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-13  5:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-11 16:20 Unicode progress tooltip? Skip Montanaro
2020-10-11 16:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-12  4:10   ` Pankaj Jangid
2020-10-11 16:52 ` Pankaj Jangid
2020-10-11 17:33   ` Stefan Kangas
2020-10-12  4:24     ` Pankaj Jangid
2020-10-12 10:13   ` Robert Pluim
2020-10-13  5:38     ` Jean Louis [this message]
2020-10-13 14:17     ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-11 19:24 ` Skip Montanaro
2020-10-11 19:58   ` Drew Adams
2020-10-13 11:38   ` Skip Montanaro

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