From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harald Hanche-Olsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Input method or help feature needed Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 21:24:15 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <20110217.212415.1506249870047884288.hanche@math.ntnu.no> References: <8339nmwjf2.fsf@gnu.org> <87aahu30d5.fsf@escher.home> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1297974271 27955 80.91.229.12 (17 Feb 2011 20:24:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 20:24:31 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 17 21:24:28 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PqAOo-0005zy-Vn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 21:24:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37806 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PqAOo-000694-HF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 15:24:26 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=55974 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PqAOj-00068r-2I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 15:24:21 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PqAOh-0007mp-RC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 15:24:20 -0500 Original-Received: from anne.math.ntnu.no ([129.241.15.150]:50012) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PqAOh-0007m5-Ca for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 15:24:19 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 18335 invoked from network); 17 Feb 2011 20:24:16 -0000 Original-Received: from gauss.math.ntnu.no (HELO localhost) (hanche@129.241.15.102) by anne.math.ntnu.no with ESMTPA; 17 Feb 2011 20:24:16 -0000 In-Reply-To: <87aahu30d5.fsf@escher.home> X-URL: http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/ X-Mailer: Mew version 6.3.50 on Emacs 24.0.50 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 129.241.15.150 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:136148 Archived-At: [Stephen Berman (2011-02-17 19:52:06 UTC)] > The ucs-insert command already does this: typing > > C-x 8 RET * dotless TAB TAB > > brings up a completions buffer containing all unicode character names > matching "DOTLESS" -- including LATIN SMALL LETTER DOTLESS I. But I don't think it is obvious from the documentation that the tab completion recognizes wildcards. Starting from C-h k C-x 8 RET and following a link we are led to the docstring for read-char-by-name, which only says You can type a few of first letters of the Unicode name and use completion. Adding a note about wildcards to that docstring would be helpful? After a look at the source, I suppose the wildcard feature is provided by completing-read, but I certainly didn't have a clue about that until now. - Harald