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

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Thu, 01 Sep 2022 14:34:51 +0300, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> said:

    >> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
    >> Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,  Eli Zaretskii
    >> <eliz@gnu.org>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
    >> Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2022 10:14:55 +0200
    >> 
    >> >>>>> On Thu, 01 Sep 2022 10:22:55 +0300, Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> 
said:
    >> 
    >> >> 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'.

    Eli> I don't see how we could avoid that as long as we also want to support
    Eli> specifying a character by its Unicode name or codepoint.

We canʼt, but it also means we canʼt use it to replace
`read-char-from-minibuffer' like Stefan wanted.

Robert
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