From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: per.starback@gmail.com, 4922@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#4922: <control>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 15:40:28 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvwrd4jpci.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m362kqqjc0.fsf@stories.gnus.org> (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sun, 18 Sep 2011 11:40:47 +0200")
>>> > emacs -q
>>> > C-x 8 RET < TAB RET
>>> > completes to "<control>" which inserts \237.
>> What _did_ you expect to see? why would you type `<' to begin with?
> If you just type TAB without the <, you also get <control> first. Which
> doesn't seem very useful, I think.
Maybe it's not very useful (especially since this same name is used for
several characters), but it's what Unicode names characters 0-31 in its
UnicodeData.txt. Should we really bother to do something special for them?
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-19 19:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-13 20:58 bug#4922: <control> Per Starbäck
2011-09-18 9:07 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-18 9:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-18 9:40 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-19 19:40 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2011-09-21 18:44 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-02-26 10:20 ` Xue Fuqiao
2014-02-26 14:05 ` Drew Adams
2014-02-26 14:14 ` Per Starbäck
2014-02-26 14:46 ` Drew Adams
2014-02-26 15:10 ` Per Starbäck
2014-02-26 15:53 ` Drew Adams
2014-02-26 16:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
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