From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "B. T. Raven" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: .emacs poser Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2013 16:17:20 -0600 Organization: NewsGuy - Unlimited Usenet $23.95 Message-ID: References: <87haa57s44.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> <8761ql7ds0.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> <87bo0b1kbb.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1388355614 1567 80.91.229.3 (29 Dec 2013 22:20:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2013 22:20:14 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 29 23:20:19 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VxOiZ-0006d8-Os for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Dec 2013 23:20:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56423 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VxOiZ-0005Vo-6n for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Dec 2013 17:20:19 -0500 X-Received: by 10.224.24.65 with SMTP id u1mr24847438qab.6.1388355463975; Sun, 29 Dec 2013 14:17:43 -0800 (PST) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!p15no50337078qaj.0!news-out.google.com!p7ni1435qat.0!nntp.google.com!peer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!spln!extra.newsguy.com!newsp.newsguy.com!news6 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: p605fef363c09e9fe53344412833a31e936f1c6dfb0abc75c.newsdawg.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120907 Thunderbird/15.0.1 In-Reply-To: X-Received-Bytes: 1872 X-Received-Body-CRC: 2789977618 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:202916 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:95185 Archived-At: Wow! Who'd'a thunk? I entered in lower case 'combining', tab upcased it, and tab again gave a whole page of canonical names starting with COMBINING !! >>> I know about ucs-insert but don't want to have to look >>> up the hexcodes. >> >> You do not have to know the hex code — the canonical character name >> will do just fine, and there is tab completion. > > And if you have completion with regexp or substring patterns > then it becomes even simpler. Any regular expression in the mini-buffer returns "Not a unicode character..." Ed >