Subject: Re: bug#4922: <control>

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 15:40:28 -0400

>>> > emacs -q
>>> >   C-x 8 RET < TAB RET
>>> > completes to "<control>" which inserts \237.
>> What _did_ you expect to see? why would you type `<' to begin with?
> If you just type TAB without the <, you also get <control> first.  Which
> doesn't seem very useful, I think.

Maybe it's not very useful (especially since this same name is used for
several characters), but it's what Unicode names characters 0-31 in its
UnicodeData.txt.  Should we really bother to do something special for them?

        Stefan