From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com>
Cc: Help GNU Emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Unicode progress tooltip?
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2020 12:13:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2mu0r3g6w.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2r1q4ln6d.fsf@codeisgreat.org> (Pankaj Jangid's message of "Sun, 11 Oct 2020 22:22:58 +0530")
>>>>> On Sun, 11 Oct 2020 22:22:58 +0530, Pankaj Jangid <pankaj@codeisgreat.org> said:
Pankaj> On Sun, Oct 11 2020, Skip Montanaro wrote:
>> I have a US layout keyboard. I occasionally need to type non-ASCII stuff
>> like ¾, ₤ or é. I've now memorized a few Compose key sequences (environment
>> is Ubuntu 20.04), but golly gee, there are a lot of them! I noticed that
>> when I mash down on the Compose key a little tooltip pops up
>>
>> [image: Screenshot from 2020-10-11 10-59-29.png]
>>
>> and is extended as more keys are pressed. Once a complete sequence is
>> entered, the appropriate glyph is rendered and the tooltip dismissed. This
>> is very nice.
Pankaj> You need two things:
Pankaj> (1) Install which-key package, then
Pankaj> (2) Press ‘C-x 8’ (then wait for a second)
Pankaj> In step (2) if you press RET instead of waiting then you can enter
Pankaj> UNICODE CHARACTER NAME also.
Pankaj> The characters you have entered are unicode - FRACTION THREE QUARTER,
Pankaj> POUND SIGN, LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE
Or you can search through the available names by prepending a '*'. Try
C-x 8 RET *FRACTION TAB TAB
Robert
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-12 10:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-11 16:20 Unicode progress tooltip? Skip Montanaro
2020-10-11 16:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-12 4:10 ` Pankaj Jangid
2020-10-11 16:52 ` Pankaj Jangid
2020-10-11 17:33 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-10-12 4:24 ` Pankaj Jangid
2020-10-12 10:13 ` Robert Pluim [this message]
2020-10-13 5:38 ` Jean Louis
2020-10-13 14:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-11 19:24 ` Skip Montanaro
2020-10-11 19:58 ` Drew Adams
2020-10-13 11:38 ` Skip Montanaro
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