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: Entering Unicode characters Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 11:18:34 -0500 Message-ID: References: > <83twmkkv16.fsf@gnu.org> > > > > > <53a037f4-6ce9-4d2d-bd2b-bcd8af9c2c02@default> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1453738737 6588 80.91.229.3 (25 Jan 2016 16:18:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 16:18:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Andrew Hyatt , johnw@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 25 17:18:48 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aNjqn-0002av-24 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Jan 2016 17:18:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39497 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aNjqm-0004tM-8I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Jan 2016 11:18:44 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52457) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aNjqi-0004tD-HL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jan 2016 11:18:41 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aNjqd-0006fw-Ew for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jan 2016 11:18:40 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:40967) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aNjqd-0006fg-Av; Mon, 25 Jan 2016 11:18:35 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: A0AsEwA731xV/zh9oWxcgxCEAoVVuzcJh0sEAgKBPDkUAQEBAQEBAYEKQQWDXQEBAwFWIwULCzQSFBgNJIg3CM8jAQEBAQYBAQEBHos6hQUHhC0Fi0RshASjC4FFI4QWIIJ4AQEB X-IPAS-Result: A0AsEwA731xV/zh9oWxcgxCEAoVVuzcJh0sEAgKBPDkUAQEBAQEBAYEKQQWDXQEBAwFWIwULCzQSFBgNJIg3CM8jAQEBAQYBAQEBHos6hQUHhC0Fi0RshASjC4FFI4QWIIJ4AQEB X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.13,465,1427774400"; d="scan'208";a="191177762" Original-Received: from 108-161-125-56.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([108.161.125.56]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 25 Jan 2016 11:18:34 -0500 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 59B5B6621A; Mon, 25 Jan 2016 11:18:34 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <53a037f4-6ce9-4d2d-bd2b-bcd8af9c2c02@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Mon, 25 Jan 2016 08:04:45 -0800 (PST)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:198789 Archived-At: >> > "C-x 8 RET" should give you any unicode character by name. >> That is useless in practice, because it requires users to know these >> long and often obscure names. When I wanted to do this, I was unable >> to do it with C-x 8. I was totally stumped! All I could do was try >> to find a file which had the character I wanted. > It's a _lot_ easier if completion matching is at least substring, Which it already is by default. > But yes, some of the char names are hard to imagine (and thus > match). It would help if a user could narrow the choices by > specifying a character category, for example. I think for the cases corresponding to those obsolete iso-* packages, even better would be to provide a "base character" and be offered a choice among all those chars that build on it. Stefan