From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: inputting characters by hexadigit Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:08:29 -0400 Message-ID: References: <868ww3vydn.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87myki6fqp.fsf@jurta.org> <87mykhz6tf.fsf@jurta.org> <87tzeokrku.fsf@jurta.org> <87od4wgg8p.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <86od4vmi5i.fsf@lifelogs.com> <873am6n21q.fsf@jurta.org> <87sku5if8t.fsf_-_@jurta.org> <87od4sti4g.fsf@jurta.org> <867ibcekf3.fsf@lifelogs.com> <86tzegcq15.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216865329 30967 80.91.229.12 (24 Jul 2008 02:08:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:08:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ted Zlatanov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 24 04:09:38 2008 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 4.50) id 1KLqGr-0000p9-FV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:09:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44509 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KLqFy-0008CA-92 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:08:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KLqFt-0008AU-3e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:08:33 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KLqFs-00089k-Fk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:08:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55191 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KLqFr-00089Z-RC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:08:31 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:16788) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KLqFr-0005P0-AY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:08:31 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Aq8EABuBh0hFxIYw/2dsb2JhbACBWrBpgX0 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.31,241,1215403200"; d="scan'208";a="24737660" Original-Received: from 69-196-134-48.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.196.134.48]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 23 Jul 2008 22:08:30 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 8849E7F1C; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:08:29 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <86tzegcq15.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:19:02 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:101355 Archived-At: > The advantage over categories, which you suggested, is that the > completion code won't need categories supplied--it automatically gets > them based on the word syntax, so it's less work for the programmer and Maybe I misunderstand what you mean by word syntax. Are you referring to something more like partial-completion-mode? Stefan