From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: 43866@debbugs.gnu.org, Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
Subject: bug#43866: 26.3; italian postfix additions
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2020 12:43:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2tuuxjdet.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1kSYYq-0005LA-N4@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed, 14 Oct 2020 00:38:48 -0400")
>>>>> On Wed, 14 Oct 2020 00:38:48 -0400, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> said:
>> Would it make sense to support exactly the same keys that are
>> provided by the X11 compose method?
Richard> That might be a good idea.
Could we provide this as an input method?
Richard> Also, I wonder if we could make that command more self-documenting.
Richard> Maybe C-h in the argument for C-x 8 could display a buffer
Richard> which displays characters you can choose.
Richard> Each character would be followed by the sequence to type to choose that
Richard> character.
The problem is that such a list is very long. 'C-h b' after 'C-x 8
RET' will display the bindings, but it does not currently contain the
character names, and TAB after 'C-x 8 RET' will list all the names but
not the sequences for entering them.
There are completion frameworks that have solved this, eg with helm
you can start typing right after 'C-x 8 RET' and it will narrow the
list down automatically. Iʼm sure we could do something similar.
Richard> This should include all the characters Emacs supports, divided clearly
Richard> into Unicode code blocks, with their unicode names. Not just the ones
Richard> that have specific short C-x 8 sequences definied in Emacs.
Why does it matter which code block a character is in?
Richard> It would be nice to have a prefix more mnemonic than C-x 8.
Richard> But I have nothing to suggest.
Richard> It would be good to shorten C-x 8 RET. That is my go-to method
Richard> of inserting characters for which I don't know a sequence.
Where would you put it? Note that if you do know the sequence you can
use Alt or a dead accent key instead of 'C-x 8' (someone did suggest
freeing up F2 recently)
Richard> Currently, 8 upper-case letters are valid after C-h 8, and 6
Richard> lower-case. Suppose we free up one case -- either the upper-case
Richard> letters or the lower-case letters. Then we could make typing
Richard> a letter of that case throw you into the minibuffer.
I think itʼs a tossup as to which of them would be easier to free
up. The lower case bindings have one fewer prefix key, so perhaps
lower case. Or perhaps a completely different binding.
Richard> In this way, we could replace C-x 8 RET UNICODE-NAME RET with
Richard> C-x 8 UNICODE-NAME RET.
Richard> Also, why not change the Unicode character names to lower-case?
Richard> They would look nicer that way, I think.
The Unicode character names are always described in upper case, but I
guess we could add a configuration option so that 'ucs-names'
downcased them (the completion in C-x 8 RET is case insensitive)
Robert
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Thread overview: 109+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-08 12:05 bug#43866: 26.3; italian postfix additions Francesco Potortì
2020-10-08 12:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-08 12:34 ` Francesco Potortì
2020-10-08 12:39 ` Robert Pluim
2020-10-08 12:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-08 13:54 ` Robert Pluim
2020-10-08 14:24 ` Robert Pluim
2020-10-08 14:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-08 13:26 ` Francesco Potortì
2020-10-08 14:00 ` Robert Pluim
2020-10-13 20:07 ` Juri Linkov
2020-10-14 2:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-14 8:07 ` Juri Linkov
2020-10-14 15:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-14 19:40 ` Juri Linkov
2020-10-15 2:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-19 20:45 ` Juri Linkov
2020-10-19 23:12 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-10-20 18:42 ` Juri Linkov
2020-10-20 14:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-20 14:47 ` Robert Pluim
2020-10-20 15:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-20 18:44 ` Juri Linkov
2020-10-20 19:05 ` Juri Linkov
2020-10-21 8:11 ` Robert Pluim
2020-10-21 14:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-21 14:40 ` Robert Pluim
2020-10-21 15:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-21 17:30 ` Juri Linkov
2020-10-20 19:56 ` Juri Linkov
2020-10-21 14:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-21 17:23 ` Juri Linkov
2020-10-21 18:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-21 18:27 ` Juri Linkov
2020-10-21 18:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-21 19:39 ` Juri Linkov
2020-10-22 12:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-22 20:56 ` bug#44155: Print integers as characters Juri Linkov
2020-10-22 22:39 ` Andreas Schwab
2020-10-23 8:16 ` Juri Linkov
2020-10-23 8:32 ` Juri Linkov
2020-10-24 19:53 ` Juri Linkov
2020-10-25 17:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-25 19:09 ` Juri Linkov
2020-10-25 19:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-27 20:08 ` Juri Linkov
2020-10-28 15:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-28 19:41 ` Juri Linkov
2020-10-29 14:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-29 21:00 ` Juri Linkov
2020-10-30 7:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-31 20:11 ` Juri Linkov
2020-10-31 23:27 ` Glenn Morris
2020-11-01 7:58 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-01 15:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-01 18:39 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-01 18:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-01 19:13 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-01 19:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-01 20:16 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-01 12:03 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-11-01 18:35 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-01 20:52 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-11-02 21:36 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-02 23:03 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-11-03 8:30 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-03 15:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-03 18:47 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-11-03 19:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-04 11:03 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-11-04 15:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-04 16:46 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-11-04 16:58 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-11-06 13:02 ` Mattias Engdegård
2022-04-30 12:19 ` bug#43866: 26.3; italian postfix additions Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-30 12:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-30 14:49 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-30 15:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-30 18:49 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-29 13:35 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-15 3:52 ` Richard Stallman
2020-10-14 4:38 ` Richard Stallman
2020-10-14 8:11 ` Juri Linkov
2020-10-14 10:43 ` Robert Pluim [this message]
2020-10-15 3:54 ` Richard Stallman
2020-10-14 14:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-08 15:23 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-10-08 15:35 ` Robert Pluim
2020-10-08 16:22 ` Francesco Potortì
2020-10-08 15:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-08 16:10 ` Francesco Potortì
2020-10-08 17:18 ` Robert Pluim
2020-10-08 17:28 ` Francesco Potortì
2020-10-08 17:59 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-10-08 19:55 ` Francesco Potortì
2020-10-09 4:42 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-09 11:26 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-10-09 11:53 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2020-10-09 12:45 ` Robert Pluim
2020-10-09 14:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-09 14:48 ` Robert Pluim
2020-10-09 15:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-10 20:54 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-12 9:26 ` Robert Pluim
2020-10-09 15:05 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-10-09 15:08 ` Robert Pluim
2020-10-09 15:28 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-10-09 15:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-09 15:21 ` Robert Pluim
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