From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: stephen.berman@gmx.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Input method or help feature needed
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 09:49:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8362sgv4zv.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1PqXoo-0003tu-Ks@fencepost.gnu.org>
> Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:24:50 -0500
> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> 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.
>
> That is trying to do this job, but using completion as the interface
> is inconvenient. I don't want to have to navigate that buffer by
> typing TAB. I am not sure what the * does, and I would never have
> thought of typing it.
Yes, the * feature is hard to discover. It was only documented in the
Emacs manual, and is hardly intuitive for Emacs old-timers such as
myself.
> It takes a long time for the buffer to appear. Perhaps that is
> inevitable, but having it happen in the middle of things was
> confusing.
There are many characters in the Unicode database, so slow machines
will take time generating the list, especially if that's the first
time you are invoking "C-x 8 RET".
> Is there a faster way to generate such a list?
Try "M-x list-character-sets", where you could type RET on the
unicode-bmp charset and have it displayed. If you already know that
there's a charset named "unicode-bmp", you could use "M-x
list-charset-chars" instead.
We should probably enhance list-charset-chars with at least the
following 3 features:
. Show the Unicode name of a character in a tooltip or by typing RET
on its image;
. Show input methods that support a character;
. Allow to insert a character at point in another buffer (although
M-w followed by C-y will do as a poor-man replacement).
> I'd rather have it ordered by languages than alphabetically.
Unicode character names already are ordered by languages (well,
almost: they are ordered by _scripts_, so only single-language scripts
will give you exactly what you want; there's no "turkish", for
example, only "latin").
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-19 7:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-17 19:14 Input method or help feature needed Richard Stallman
2011-02-17 19:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-17 19:52 ` Stephen Berman
2011-02-17 20:24 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2011-02-18 10:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-18 15:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-18 20:00 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-17 22:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-02-18 21:24 ` Richard Stallman
2011-02-19 7:49 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2011-02-19 8:01 ` David Kastrup
2011-02-19 8:37 ` Miles Bader
2011-02-20 0:30 ` Richard Stallman
2011-02-20 0:29 ` Richard Stallman
2011-02-20 3:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-20 21:01 ` Richard Stallman
2011-02-18 21:24 ` Richard Stallman
2011-02-17 19:31 ` Justin Lilly
2011-02-17 19:41 ` Tassilo Horn
2011-02-18 21:24 ` Richard Stallman
2011-02-19 7:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-19 8:18 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-02-19 8:33 ` Miles Bader
2011-03-04 9:10 ` Kevin Rodgers
2011-02-17 20:26 ` Paul Eggert
2011-02-17 22:50 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-02-18 0:09 ` Miles Bader
2011-02-18 5:13 ` Werner LEMBERG
2011-02-18 8:37 ` tomas
2011-02-18 8:41 ` Miles Bader
2011-02-18 11:27 ` Kenichi Handa
2011-02-20 8:27 ` tomas
2011-02-20 10:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-20 11:16 ` David Kastrup
2011-02-20 21:01 ` Richard Stallman
2011-02-20 21:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-21 2:53 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-02-21 22:35 ` Richard Stallman
2011-02-21 0:59 ` Kenichi Handa
2011-02-21 7:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-21 7:47 ` Kenichi Handa
2011-02-21 8:25 ` Miles Bader
2011-02-21 8:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-21 11:14 ` Kenichi Handa
2011-02-21 12:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-22 0:55 ` Kenichi Handa
2011-02-22 1:23 ` Miles Bader
2011-02-21 22:36 ` Richard Stallman
2011-02-21 22:36 ` Richard Stallman
2011-02-18 8:43 ` David Kastrup
2011-02-20 8:30 ` tomas
2011-02-20 10:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-18 21:25 ` Richard Stallman
2011-02-19 7:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-20 0:29 ` Richard Stallman
2011-02-20 7:43 ` James Cloos
2011-02-20 21:01 ` Richard Stallman
2011-02-20 22:45 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2011-02-21 22:35 ` Richard Stallman
2011-02-21 22:35 ` Richard Stallman
2011-02-22 6:05 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2011-02-22 20:25 ` Richard Stallman
2011-02-19 19:26 ` James Cloos
2011-02-20 21:00 ` Richard Stallman
2011-02-20 21:33 ` Drew Adams
2011-02-21 22:36 ` Richard Stallman
2011-02-21 22:51 ` Drew Adams
2011-02-22 20:25 ` Richard Stallman
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2011-02-18 10:39 Андрей Парамонов
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