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25.1; C-x = for Unicode

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Message #33 received at 24902 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legouguec <at> gmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: Ulrich Windl <Ulrich.Windl <at> rz.uni-regensburg.de>, 24902 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#24902: 25.1; C-x = for Unicode
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2022 17:56:15 +0100

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

> "Ulrich Windl" <Ulrich.Windl <at> rz.uni-regensburg.de> writes:
>
>> When trying to insert a Unicode character using new C-X 8 RET, I
>> realized that C-x = does not print the unicode name of the character,
>> but just "Char: ‒ (8210, #o20022, #x2012) point=146 of 146 (99%)
>> column=0" (for example).
>>
>> I think it would be a logical extension to display the Unicode character
>> name also for C-x =.
>
> (I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
> at the time.)
>
> As others noted, `C-u C-x =' does display this info, and the reason that
> `C-x =' doesn't is because the names can be very long.  We could add a
> user option to include it anyway, but in my opinion, it wouldn't be used
> much, and users that want this could just add advice to the command to
> do it instead.
>
> So I'm closing this bug report.

Note that Emacs 27 introduced what-cursor-show-names, which does exactly
what is requested in this report IIUC.

I'm a happy user of that option, FWIW.

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