From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: ivan@siamics.net, 20499@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20499: [PROPOSED PATCH] C-x 8 shorthands for curved quotes, Euro, etc.
Date: Thu, 07 May 2015 18:22:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1YqUBV-0004BF-FS@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83r3qtr7r3.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Wed, 06 May 2015 19:27:44 +0300)
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> Maybe I don't understand the use case you have in mind. I thought the
> use case was that you already know the character's name, at least
> approximately, and want to look up its code, to type is faster.
I know what the character looks like. It is NOT easy to guess
what the name would be. There are many possibilities.
> > C-x 8 RET is even worse than that, because it requires
> > _copying_ the name of the character. To actually see the character
> > point is on requires
> > M-f C-f C-SPC C-s ; C-b M-w C-a C-x 8 RET C-y SPC
> "C-x 8 RET" accepts the codepoint in hex, so if you are already
> looking at the line that defines the character, all you need is to
> type a 4-, sometimes 5-hex-digit number.
> And if you want to type the name, "C-x 8 RET" provides completion, so
> no need for such a complicated dance for copying the name.
Are you kidding? Just to see 32 characters' glyphs
I'd have to type 128 input characters.
The feature I want would show 32 glyphs on each line,
and many lines would fit on the screen at once.
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Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-04 1:13 bug#20499: [PROPOSED PATCH] C-x 8 shorthands for curved quotes, Euro, etc Paul Eggert
2015-05-04 14:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-04 15:20 ` bug#16082: " Ivan Shmakov
2015-05-04 15:41 ` bug#20499: " Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-04 16:12 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-05-04 16:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-04 18:12 ` bug#20499: " Ivan Shmakov
2015-05-04 18:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-04 22:00 ` bug#20499: bug#16082: bug#20499: [PROPOSED PATCH] " Stefan Monnier
2015-05-04 16:11 ` Paul Eggert
2015-05-04 16:15 ` Richard Stallman
2015-05-04 16:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-04 16:48 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-05-04 17:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-04 17:40 ` bug#20499: " Ivan Shmakov
2015-05-04 22:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-05-05 14:38 ` bug#20499: [PROPOSED PATCH] " Richard Stallman
2015-05-05 14:49 ` Ted Zlatanov
2015-05-05 15:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-05 16:05 ` bug#20499: " Ivan Shmakov
2015-05-05 15:31 ` bug#20499: [PROPOSED PATCH] " Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-05 16:20 ` bug#20499: " Ivan Shmakov
2015-05-05 16:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-06 13:09 ` Richard Stallman
2015-05-06 15:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <<E1Ypz4X-0002JA-R0@fencepost.gnu.org>
2015-05-09 0:03 ` Drew Adams
2015-05-09 8:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-06 13:09 ` bug#20499: [PROPOSED PATCH] " Richard Stallman
2015-05-06 16:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-07 22:22 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2015-05-08 5:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-08 18:46 ` Richard Stallman
2015-05-08 18:46 ` Richard Stallman
2015-05-09 7:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-09 14:17 ` Richard Stallman
2015-05-09 14:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-08 20:18 ` Drew Adams
2015-05-09 7:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-04 18:40 ` Paul Eggert
2015-05-05 6:03 ` Paul Eggert
2015-05-06 22:20 ` bug#20499: " Ivan Shmakov
2015-05-07 4:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-07 7:14 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-05-07 14:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-07 7:53 ` bug#20499: [PROPOSED PATCH] " Paul Eggert
2015-05-07 10:00 ` bug#20499: " Ivan Shmakov
2015-05-07 14:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-07 17:03 ` bug#20499: [PROPOSED PATCH] " Stefan Monnier
2015-05-11 0:51 ` Paul Eggert
2015-05-11 2:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-05-11 1:28 ` bug#20499: [PROPOSED PATCH] C-x 8 shorthands for curved quotes, , " Paul Eggert
2015-05-11 14:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-11 15:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-05-11 16:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-11 18:48 ` Paul Eggert
2015-05-11 19:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-12 8:56 ` Richard Stallman
2015-05-12 16:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-26 15:12 ` bug#16082: " Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-13 8:49 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2015-05-11 18:27 ` Richard Stallman
2015-05-11 1:55 ` bug#20499: C-x 8 shorthands for curved quotes, " Paul Eggert
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