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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Name completion when using "read-char-by-name"
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2022 18:41:34 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ilkvmyj5.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <oMjjxG0Rn6zTHPrhth7WitYkEfotJHbe8xiTjPbn8Qszjoovgx-7b7dIcCdG5tEoA0NGhE80MLrTWTjwWV4GbbM04nquvcwJbuUB1tDLmWM=@proton.me> (message from uzibalqa on Fri, 07 Oct 2022 15:26:45 +0000)

> Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2022 15:26:45 +0000
> From: uzibalqa <uzibalqa@proton.me>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> 
> > As usual in Emacs: by pressing TAB.
> 
> The difficulty occurs with read-char-by-name.  Using the common minibuffer commands such as
> "M-x text-TAB" I get the list of possible completions.
> 
> But with "read-char-by-name" the TAB does not fire the completion list.

It does here.  The first time you do that in a session it could be a
bit slow, because Emacs needs to scan the entire list of Unicode
characters.  But it does pop up a buffer with completions.



  reply	other threads:[~2022-10-07 15:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-07  0:04 Name completion when using "read-char-by-name" uzibalqa
2022-10-07  6:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-07 15:26   ` uzibalqa
2022-10-07 15:41     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-10-07 17:33       ` uzibalqa
2022-10-07 19:08         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-07 19:22           ` uzibalqa
2022-10-07 19:24             ` uzibalqa
2022-10-07 21:29               ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-10-08  6:08               ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-07 16:04     ` uzibalqa
2022-10-07 18:34       ` Bruno Barbier
2022-10-07 19:06         ` uzibalqa
2022-10-07 19:03       ` Eli Zaretskii

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