GNU bug report logs - #20499
[PROPOSED PATCH] C-x 8 shorthands for curved quotes, Euro, etc.

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Date: Mon, 4 May 2015 01:15:03 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: patch

Merged with 16082

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #75 received at 20499 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ivan Shmakov <ivan <at> siamics.net>
To: 20499 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20499: C-x 8 shorthands for curved quotes, Euro, etc. 
Date: Tue, 05 May 2015 16:05:37 +0000

>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>>>>> Date: Tue, 05 May 2015 10:49:36 -0400

 >> Could something like eldoc be used instead to show the information
 >> and the all the shortcuts to that character without switching
 >> buffers?

 > Sounds like a natural extension of "C-x =".

	Agreed.

 > (And no, I don't think that showing that info without an explicit
 > user command is a good idea in this case.  Eldoc has a very different
 > use case in mind.)

	I’m not fond of Eldoc, but I presume that after an explicit user
	M-x unicode-data-mode command – it could be fine.

	I’d also prefer for that same mode to support NamesList.txt.

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