From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: <jidanni@jidanni.org>, <10477@debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#10477: zap-to-char should allow picking from history
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 17:23:55 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C7B1D5557649477D8400935228AD5EA8@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fwfmsytp.fsf@jidanni.org>
> zap-to-char should allow typing e.g., the up arrow to pick a
> recently used character, and then RET.
>
> Currently the only way is to type the actual character back in again!
> Even if hard to type CKS!
>
> Currently one gets 'Non-character input-event'.
>
> It should work something like one can maneuver at M-x occur's 'List
> lines matching regexp:' prompt.
> So: if a-z etc. is pressed, then no RET should be required.
>
> If any 'Non-character input-event' is pressed, then we should
> be able to manipulate from a history list of recently zapped chars.
This sounds similar to bug #1580 (which jidanni also filed), though the emphasis
seems a bit different.
---
FWIW, in Icicles, command `icicle-zap-to-char' uses function
`icicle-read-char-maybe-completing' interactively, which is like `read-char'
unless you hit a completing key (e.g. `TAB') or you hit `C-q'.
If you hit a completing key, you complete a character name against either the
names of your previously entered Unicode chars (default behavior) or all Unicode
char names (depends on an option setting).
It is function `icicle-read-char-by-name', a replacement for
`read-char-by-name', which does the completion. It also populates the
Unicode-char history list used by `icicle-read-char-maybe-completing'.
You can read (and zap to) a TAB char by hitting C-q first: `C-q TAB'. You can
read (and zap to) a `C-q' char by hitting `C-q C-q'.
The idea is to try to make it easier to zap to Unicode (e.g. Chinese) chars that
you have already inserted. The tradeoff is that zapping to a TAB or C-q char
requires you to hit `C-q' first.
(I don't really know whether completing against a char name is necessarily
easier than "to type the actual character back in again". Completing against a
history list instead of all Unicode chars as candidates, the thought was that it
might be. Dunno.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-15 1:23 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 [this message]
2012-01-15 1:38 ` jidanni
2012-01-15 3:47 ` Drew Adams
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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