From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Feature request for `describe-char-after' Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 18:45:50 +0200 Organization: JURTA Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87vfkwn83l.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: <16477.53040.700494.489540@gargle.gargle.HOWL> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1079974298 23941 80.91.224.253 (22 Mar 2004 16:51:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 16:51:38 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 22 17:51:29 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B5Se9-0007Y9-00 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 17:51:29 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B5Se9-0007y8-00 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 17:51:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B5SdT-0004xm-9M for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 11:50:47 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B5Scu-0004wJ-8Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 11:50:12 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B5Say-00044q-8h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 11:48:43 -0500 Original-Received: from [66.33.219.4] (helo=spork.dreamhost.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B5Sax-00044F-Az for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 11:48:11 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.jurta.org (80-235-32-135-dsl.mus.estpak.ee [80.235.32.135]) by spork.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1183111DC7B for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 08:48:05 -0800 (PST) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <16477.53040.700494.489540@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (luis fernandes's message of "Sun, 21 Mar 2004 12:21:52 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:20734 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:20734 BTW, I need another feature for `describe-char' - the ability to display Unicode data for the character after point. The saddest thing about it is that it's already implemented but commented out with the following commentary: ;;; We cannot use the UnicodeData.txt file as such; it is not free. ;;; We can turn that info a different format and release the result ;;; as free data. When that is done, we could reinstate the code below. ;;; For the mean time, here is a dummy placeholder. ;;; ;; We could convert the unidata file into a Lispy form once-for-all ;;; ;; and distribute it for loading on demand. It might be made more ;;; ;; space-efficient by splitting strings word-wise and replacing them ;;; ;; with lists of symbols interned in a private obarray, e.g. ;;; ;; "LATIN SMALL LETTER A" => '(LATIN SMALL LETTER A). I wonder why nobody has converted it into a Lisp format? Are there any legal obstacles? -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/