From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tianxiang Xiong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Entering Unicode characters Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 17:08:29 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <83twmkkv16.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1453828192 18917 80.91.229.3 (26 Jan 2016 17:09:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 17:09:52 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 26 18:09:44 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 1aO77f-0005th-3c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Jan 2016 18:09:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45277 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aO77e-0004fd-BQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Jan 2016 12:09:42 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54851) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aO76o-0003on-1J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Jan 2016 12:08:50 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aO76i-0003Ev-6t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Jan 2016 12:08:49 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:36692) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aO76i-0003EX-0R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Jan 2016 12:08:44 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aO76g-0005Ok-Bi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Jan 2016 18:08:42 +0100 Original-Received: from pat-verona-d.epic.com ([199.204.56.18]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 26 Jan 2016 18:08:42 +0100 Original-Received: from tianxiang.xiong by pat-verona-d.epic.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 26 Jan 2016 18:08:42 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 33 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 199.204.56.18 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/47.0.2526.111 Safari/537.36) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:198860 Archived-At: Richard Stallman gnu.org> writes: > > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > Completion schemes can make it easier to enter long names that you > know. They are no use for me in entering unusual characters, because > I don't know their names. > > I want a system that lets me choose them by seeing them on the screen. > I want to specify a language or script and see all its characters. > > For instance, if I enter 'turkish' it should show me all the > characters used in Turkish. Then I could pick the dotless i from the > buffer. > > Would someone please implement this? > It seems that what Richard wants is something like Microsoft Word's character insertion modal window. See http://wordfaqs.mvps.org/images/SpecChars2.gif for an example. You select a subset of characters in a character set (e.g. Greek letters) and are shown a modal window with visual representations of all the characters. You can then choose a character to insert into the document. In Emacs, of course, we don't have modal windows, but we can have buffers that display the characters line-by-line.