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

[Stefan Monnier]

>> 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.

I lost the beginning of this discussion: why can't we unify
`read-char-from-minibuffer` and `read-char-by-name' into a single function?


        Stefan