From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Roland Winkler" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: input method for unicode math characters Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2011 11:16:59 -0500 Message-ID: <20103.15611.251401.52578@gargle.gargle.HOWL> References: <20101.36002.883292.80289@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <83y5x6cbzs.fsf@gnu.org> <20102.13845.656476.544543@gargle.gargle.HOWL> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1317491376 12359 80.91.229.12 (1 Oct 2011 17:49:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2011 17:49:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org, antoine.levitt@gmail.com To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 01 19:49:31 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RA3go-0005zl-M6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Oct 2011 19:49:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58891 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RA3go-0003To-An for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Oct 2011 13:49:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:58240) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RA2FZ-0006qk-UP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Oct 2011 12:17:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RA2FY-00056G-OH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Oct 2011 12:17:17 -0400 Original-Received: from tfkpsv.physik.uni-erlangen.de ([131.188.164.197]:2708) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RA2FX-00055d-4U; Sat, 01 Oct 2011 12:17:15 -0400 Original-Received: from regnitz (82.Red-80-32-229.staticIP.rima-tde.net [80.32.229.82]) by tfkpsv.physik.uni-erlangen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C29D211E6; Sat, 1 Oct 2011 18:17:02 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 8.2 trial under 24.0.50.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-Received-From: 131.188.164.197 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 01 Oct 2011 13:49:28 -0400 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:144516 Archived-At: On Sat Oct 1 2011 Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> There's C-x 8 RET. For instance C-x 8 RET double integral produces . > > Thanks, well, the problem with this is that one needs to know these names. > > You can use completion to find it. I personally find that substring > completion is very useful for it, so I have > > (when (boundp 'completion-category-overrides) > (add-to-list 'completion-category-overrides > '(unicode-name (styles basic substring)))) Thanks, I'll give it a try. > I don't find the echo area guidance very useful for TeX, indeed, > but it's not like the guidance bothers me: I just ignore it. This > said, it would be good to improve it for such circumstances I'd appreciate that! There are things popping up in the message area that I do not want to ignore. And there are other things that one can ignore without a problem. Yet I only know which category a message belongs to if I do pay some attention to what is happening in the message area. So the bottom line is that too often one can get distracted for nothing. Roland