From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Unicode progress tooltip? Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2020 19:45:13 +0300 Message-ID: <83eem44spy.fsf@gnu.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="3882"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 11 18:45:41 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kReTd-0000uS-6B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 11 Oct 2020 18:45:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34468 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kReTc-0000Dv-3p for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 11 Oct 2020 12:45:40 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:49568) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kReT8-0000Dd-4h for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Oct 2020 12:45:13 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:54709) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kReT7-0005F0-RY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Oct 2020 12:45:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3963 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kReT7-0000Ta-3V for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Oct 2020 12:45:09 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Skip Montanaro on Sun, 11 Oct 2020 11:20:48 -0500) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:124431 Archived-At: > From: Skip Montanaro > Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2020 11:20:48 -0500 > > 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. > > Still, I wonder... Is there a way to get Emacs to display all the > possibilities for the next key and the resulting glyph? This would be sort > of like the long press over a key on my Android phone which brings up a > pop-up menu showing the various related characters you can select. For > example, after entering Compose L, it appears the "next set" only contains > eight characters (according to my computer's Compose file). Is there some > package which can parse the Compose file and present the next characters > and potentially the final possible glyphs? I poked around in the package > list on my Emacs install (v 26.3). None of the packages matching the search > string "unicode" seemed like what I was looking for. Try C-u C-\ TeX RET and then C-h C-\ RET to see the combinations.