From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: inputting characters by hexadigit Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:52:52 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87fxpy7p37.fsf@jurta.org> References: <868ww3vydn.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87myki6fqp.fsf@jurta.org> <87mykhz6tf.fsf@jurta.org> <87tzeokrku.fsf@jurta.org> <87od4wgg8p.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <86od4vmi5i.fsf@lifelogs.com> <873am6n21q.fsf@jurta.org> <87sku5if8t.fsf_-_@jurta.org> <87od4sti4g.fsf@jurta.org> <867ibcekf3.fsf@lifelogs.com> <878wvsut39.fsf@jurta.org> <4887B829.8010804@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216948037 24519 80.91.229.12 (25 Jul 2008 01:07:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:07:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ted Zlatanov , "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 25 03:08:05 2008 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 4.50) id 1KMBmu-0000h9-BB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:08:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36294 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KMBlz-00014M-Fp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:07:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KMBlv-00013U-1m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:07:03 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KMBlt-00011i-Ko for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:07:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=57988 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KMBlt-00011S-CA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:07:01 -0400 Original-Received: from relay01.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.200]:2471) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KMBls-0007aP-8J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:07:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay01.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1KMBln-000CxJ-J3; Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:06:55 +0300 In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:18:08 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-Scanner-Signature: c2436a487120708c9e0f2b31fdd4cc45 X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: juri@jurta.org X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Header: Trusted X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 4443 [July 24 2008] X-SpamTest-Info: {received from trusted relay: common white list} X-SpamTest-Info: {HEADERS: header Content-Type found without required header Content-Transfer-Encoding} X-SpamTest-Method: white ip list X-SpamTest-Rate: 10 X-SpamTest-Status: Trusted X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: trusted X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0278], KAS30/Release X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.8-5.1 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.3) 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:101440 Archived-At: >> And I would even suggest it as a general completion feature. > > Try * A TAB: the completion list will show the complete names, but only > for those char names that contain an A, so * A P L TAB will list all the > chars that contain "APL" in their name. BTW, I encountered one problem with this functionality. For instance, when there is a buffer with the name "*grep*", typing `C-x b *g TAB' completes to this name, good. But when I do the same and the *grep* buffer doesn't exist for various reasons then the completion list is confusing, it displays a large list of irrelevant completions. This is a minor problem but it would be better to improve this somehow. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/