* ucs-insert in query-replace?
@ 2012-02-03 16:54 Tom Roche
2012-02-03 16:58 ` Jambunathan K
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From: Tom Roche @ 2012-02-03 16:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
Just now I was trying to unencode some email with lines like
> * =E2=88=80 target values v: (v > 0) || is.na(v)
I know that '=E2=88=80' == '∀', so I did (the keyboard equivalent of)
> M-x query-replace '=E2=88=80'
and attempted to then do ucs-insert (C-x 8 RET 'for all'), but got
> Command attempted to use minibuffer while in minibuffer
How to do this correctly, or to do what I want some other way?
TIA, Tom Roche <Tom_Roche@pobox.com>
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* Re: ucs-insert in query-replace?
2012-02-03 16:54 ucs-insert in query-replace? Tom Roche
@ 2012-02-03 16:58 ` Jambunathan K
2012-02-03 17:26 ` Tom Roche
2012-02-03 19:22 ` Drew Adams
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From: Jambunathan K @ 2012-02-03 16:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs; +Cc: Tom Roche
Tom Roche <Tom_Roche@pobox.com> writes:
> Just now I was trying to unencode some email with lines like
>
>> * =E2=88=80 target values v: (v > 0) || is.na(v)
>
> I know that '=E2=88=80' == '∀', so I did (the keyboard equivalent of)
>
>> M-x query-replace '=E2=88=80'
>
> and attempted to then do ucs-insert (C-x 8 RET 'for all'), but got
>
>> Command attempted to use minibuffer while in minibuffer
(setq enable-recursive-minibuffers t)
>
> How to do this correctly, or to do what I want some other way?
>
> TIA, Tom Roche <Tom_Roche@pobox.com>
>
>
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* Re: ucs-insert in query-replace?
2012-02-03 16:54 ucs-insert in query-replace? Tom Roche
2012-02-03 16:58 ` Jambunathan K
@ 2012-02-03 17:26 ` Tom Roche
2012-02-03 19:22 ` Drew Adams
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From: Tom Roche @ 2012-02-03 17:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
Tom Roche Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:54:05 -0500
>> I did (the keyboard equivalent of)
>> M-x query-replace '=E2=88=80'
>> and attempted to then do ucs-insert (C-x 8 RET 'for all'), but got
>> Command attempted to use minibuffer while in minibuffer
Jambunathan K Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:28:34 +0530
> (setq enable-recursive-minibuffers t)
Thanks! that fixes.
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* RE: ucs-insert in query-replace?
2012-02-03 16:54 ucs-insert in query-replace? Tom Roche
2012-02-03 16:58 ` Jambunathan K
2012-02-03 17:26 ` Tom Roche
@ 2012-02-03 19:22 ` Drew Adams
2012-02-03 21:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Drew Adams @ 2012-02-03 19:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs, 'Tom Roche'
> M-x query-replace '=E2=88=80' and attempted to then do
> ucs-insert (C-x 8 RET 'for all'), but got
> "Command attempted to use minibuffer while in minibuffer"
> How to do this correctly, or to do what I want some other way?
1. As Jambunathan mentioned, to be able to use a command (e.g. `ucs-insert')
from the minibuffer, set `enable-recursive-minibuffers' to non-nil. (You
probably want to do that only temporarily.)
2. Instead of using `ucs-insert' for each such character you want to replace,
you can use library `ucs-cmds.el' to automatically create individual commands
that insert the chars from the Unicode subsets that you actually use. Using
such commands is instantaneous. Using `ucs-insert' each time you want to insert
such a character is quite slow.
3. If in addition to #2 you bind the specific char-inserting commands that you
use often to key sequences, then to use them in `query-replace' you need not set
`enable-recursive-minibuffers' to non-nil. Just hit the keys for those chars to
insert them anytime.
Library `ucs-cmds.el' is here:
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/download/ucs-cmds.el
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* Re: ucs-insert in query-replace?
2012-02-03 19:22 ` Drew Adams
@ 2012-02-03 21:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
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From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2012-02-03 21:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 11:22:52 -0800
>
> 2. Instead of using `ucs-insert' for each such character you want to replace,
> you can use library `ucs-cmds.el' to automatically create individual commands
> that insert the chars from the Unicode subsets that you actually use. Using
> such commands is instantaneous. Using `ucs-insert' each time you want to insert
> such a character is quite slow.
There's also the TeX input method which can insert quite a few Unicode
characters. "C-u C-\ TeX RET" to activate it, "C-h C-\ TeX RET" to
display the characters it can insert.
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