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Re: emacs-28 a866674b2a: Fix inaccuracies in "lax search" documentation


From: Juri Linkov
Subject: Re: emacs-28 a866674b2a: Fix inaccuracies in "lax search" documentation
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2022 19:09:34 +0300
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

> I have one comment: using `read-char-by-name' is kind
> of cumbersome when all you want to do is find the equivalents to
> e.g. 'a'. Would it make sense to have something similar to
> `read-char-by-name' but that accepted single characters *without*
> treating those as hex? Youʼd still be able to enter single digit
> hex characters by prefixing them with '0'.

Wouldn't it be cleaner to use just (read-char-from-minibuffer "Character: ")
where you can either type a character directly or use 'C-x 8 RET'
to insert a character by its name.



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