From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Input method or help feature needed Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:24:50 -0500 Message-ID: References: <8339nmwjf2.fsf@gnu.org> <87aahu30d5.fsf@escher.home> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1298064311 25955 80.91.229.12 (18 Feb 2011 21:25:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 21:25:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stephen Berman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 18 22:25:06 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 1PqXp2-0004pK-SB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 22:25:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52766 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PqXp2-0001zG-6O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:25:04 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=35559 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PqXoq-0001xs-0w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:24:53 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PqXop-0002oz-0j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:24:51 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:38259) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PqXoo-0002ov-VR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:24:50 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PqXoo-0003tu-Ks; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:24:50 -0500 In-reply-to: <87aahu30d5.fsf@escher.home> (message from Stephen Berman on Thu, 17 Feb 2011 20:52:06 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 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:136193 Archived-At: 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. That is trying to do this job, but using completion as the interface is inconvenient. I don't want to have to navigate that buffer by typing TAB. I am not sure what the * does, and I would never have thought of typing it. It takes a long time for the buffer to appear. Perhaps that is inevitable, but having it happen in the middle of things was confusing. C-x 8 RET TAB generated a buffer listing all these characters, but it took almost 30 seconds, and did not make the buffer current. Is there a faster way to generate such a list? A command to generate that list and make it current -- not via the completion mechanism -- would be much more convenient. I'd rather have it ordered by languages than alphabetically. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org, www.gnu.org