GNU bug report logs - #36454
26.2.90; feature request - Insert char by hex tab completion or C-x 8 RET ffe <TAB>

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Sebastian Urban <mrsebastianurban <at> gmail.com>
Cc: van <at> scratch.space, 36454 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
 Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Subject: Re: bug#36454: 26.2.90; feature request - Insert char by hex tab
 completion or C-x 8 RET ffe <TAB>
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2019 15:28:27 +0200

Sebastian Urban <mrsebastianurban <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Before that, what about (additional) variable which would control
> completion style in this case, with values:
> - name - default, completion in 'insert-char' would work like it works
>   now,
> - name-and-hex - completion in 'insert-char' would also complete hex
>   codes and show everything in *Completions* window,

I don't think completing over hex codes is a good idea (it's a very
dehumanising interface), and I don't think adding a variable to switch
it off or on is, either.

But what you really want is (it seems to me) to be able to list all
characters from a Unicode block, because you know where the character
is, but you want to find a specific one in that neighbourhood.  So the
"hex completion" is just an artefact here.  Instead, perhaps there
should be a new command to complete over Unicode block names, and then
list the characters in that block, and allow you to choose one of them?

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

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