From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Cc: 10477@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#10477: zap-to-char should allow picking from history
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 19:47:36 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8503B34E31CE404EB24434CAFAA96B25@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87boq5g2y5.fsf@jidanni.org>
> DA> The idea is to try to make it easier to zap to Unicode
> DA> (e.g. Chinese) chars that you have already inserted.
> DA> The tradeoff is that zapping to a TAB or C-q char
> DA> requires you to hit `C-q' first.
>
> Well pros with embedded control characters probably have
> other means of zapping.
>
> DA> (I don't really know whether completing against a char
> DA> name is necessarily easier than "to type the actual
> DA> character back in again". Completing against a
> DA> history list instead of all Unicode chars as candidates,
> DA> the thought was that it might be. Dunno.)
>
> I don't know if "completion" is relevant in the case of just
> one character. All I know is hitting one or two up arrows
> and then RET is what the user would like to do.
You can do that as well in Icicles during completion. You have the choice: type
chars to match candidates (in this case, Unicode char names) or cycle using,
e.g., arrow keys. E.g., you can do this:
M-z TAB <up> <up> <up>...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-15 3:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-11 3:27 bug#10477: zap-to-char should allow picking from history jidanni
2012-01-15 1:23 ` Drew Adams
2012-01-15 1:38 ` jidanni
2012-01-15 3:47 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2019-10-14 3:11 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-27 21:30 ` Juri Linkov
2019-10-27 22:14 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-27 22:34 ` Juri Linkov
2019-10-28 10:48 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-28 22:17 ` Juri Linkov
2019-10-29 11:32 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-29 23:01 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-30 0:00 ` Juri Linkov
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