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Re: emacs-28 a866674b2a: Fix inaccuracies in "lax search" documentation
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Robert Pluim |
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Re: emacs-28 a866674b2a: Fix inaccuracies in "lax search" documentation |
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Thu, 01 Sep 2022 10:14:55 +0200 |
>>>>> On Thu, 01 Sep 2022 10:22:55 +0300, Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> said:
>>>> 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?
Juri> Robert sent a patch that does this by adding a new arg ALLOW-SINGLE
Juri> to `read-char-by-name'.
You still need to hit RET though, unlike `read-char-from-minibuffer'.
Robert
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- Re: emacs-28 a866674b2a: Fix inaccuracies in "lax search" documentation, Juri Linkov, 2022/09/01
- Re: emacs-28 a866674b2a: Fix inaccuracies in "lax search" documentation,
Robert Pluim <=
- Re: emacs-28 a866674b2a: Fix inaccuracies in "lax search" documentation, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/09/01
- Re: emacs-28 a866674b2a: Fix inaccuracies in "lax search" documentation, Robert Pluim, 2022/09/01
- Re: emacs-28 a866674b2a: Fix inaccuracies in "lax search" documentation, Stefan Monnier, 2022/09/01
- Re: emacs-28 a866674b2a: Fix inaccuracies in "lax search" documentation, Robert Pluim, 2022/09/01
- Re: emacs-28 a866674b2a: Fix inaccuracies in "lax search" documentation, Robert Pluim, 2022/09/01
- Re: emacs-28 a866674b2a: Fix inaccuracies in "lax search" documentation, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/09/01
- Re: emacs-28 a866674b2a: Fix inaccuracies in "lax search" documentation, Robert Pluim, 2022/09/01