From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Berman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Input method or help feature needed Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 20:52:06 +0100 Message-ID: <87aahu30d5.fsf@escher.home> References: <8339nmwjf2.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1297972672 18308 80.91.229.12 (17 Feb 2011 19:57:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 19:57:52 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 17 20:57:46 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 1Pq9yq-0002U2-L7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 20:57:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59663 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pq9tw-0007ns-JK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:52:32 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=53976 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pq9tp-0007i2-Ha for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:52:26 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pq9tm-0000oy-Su for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:52:25 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:60876) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pq9tm-0000ou-Lx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:52:22 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pq9tk-0006jO-Rn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 20:52:20 +0100 Original-Received: from i59f55d4b.versanet.de ([89.245.93.75]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 20:52:20 +0100 Original-Received: from stephen.berman by i59f55d4b.versanet.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 20:52:20 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: i59f55d4b.versanet.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 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:136144 Archived-At: On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 21:27:45 +0200 Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:14:27 -0500 >> From: Richard Stallman >> >> Once in a while I want to enter some character that I know exists in >> Unicode, though I know nothing about where to find it. Today it was >> the Turkish i without dot. >> >> It is not easy to find how to enter the character you want. >> Can anyone develop a way to make it easier? > > Would it be okay to have an apropos-style command that will find > matches in the list of Unicode names of characters created by > ucs-names? > > This would allow you to find what you wanted if you know that the name > of the character has "dotless" as its substring. 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. Steve Berman