From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Input method or help feature needed Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:41:19 +0900 Message-ID: References: <87lj1ew6d3.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <20110218083736.GA12190@tomas> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1298018501 27889 80.91.229.12 (18 Feb 2011 08:41:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 08:41:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Andreas Schwab , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: tomas@tuxteam.de Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 18 09:41:33 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 1PqLu8-0004w1-GU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:41:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47997 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PqLu8-0006Gw-0C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 03:41:32 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=38425 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PqLu2-0006Gr-Rb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 03:41:27 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PqLu1-0003Si-T7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 03:41:26 -0500 Original-Received: from tyo202.gate.nec.co.jp ([202.32.8.206]:53151) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PqLu1-0003SH-Ae; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 03:41:25 -0500 Original-Received: from mailgate3.nec.co.jp ([10.7.69.192]) by tyo202.gate.nec.co.jp (8.13.8/8.13.4) with ESMTP id p1I8fKfV005776; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:41:20 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: (from root@localhost) by mailgate3.nec.co.jp (8.11.7/3.7W-MAILGATE-NEC) id p1I8fKt08300; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:41:20 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from relay51.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.60]) by vgate01.nec.co.jp (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p1I88O2c007039; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:41:20 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from relay41.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.103] [10.29.19.103]) by relay51.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:41:20 +0900 Original-Received: from dhlpc061 ([10.114.98.13] [10.114.98.13]) by relay41.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:41:20 +0900 Original-Received: by dhlpc061 (Postfix, from userid 31295) id 30DBB52E1DC; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:41:20 +0900 (JST) System-Type: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: <20110218083736.GA12190@tomas> (tomas@tuxteam.de's message of "Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:37:36 +0100") Original-Lines: 24 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 8 (1) X-Received-From: 202.32.8.206 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:136171 Archived-At: tomas@tuxteam.de writes: >> Yeah you need to know or guess part of the name, but the unicode >> names are reasonably well chosen, pretty regular, and all you need to >> know is _part_ of it; once you can guess that, it's often easy to >> narrow the number of choices enough to choose from the completion >> list... (often I'll guess a number of common terms for something, >> and get a hit after 2-3) > > As an additional thought: this won't work for non-English speakers, > right? I'd think of it like a programming language -- it's nominally "English", but of a rather limited and regular sort. Can you think of any mechanism that both completely avoids naming and covers the entire unicode space though? Well... maybe "M-x list-charset-chars RET unicode-bmp RET"... -Miles -- Infancy, n. The period of our lives when, according to Wordsworth, 'Heaven lies about us.' The world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.