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Re: Input method or help feature needed


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: Input method or help feature needed
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:43:24 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux)

address@hidden writes:

> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 09:09:44AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
>
> [partially enter Unicode name]
>
>> Yeah you need to know or guess part of the name, but the unicode names
>> are reasonably well chosen, pretty regular, and all you need to know is
>> _part_ of it; once you can guess that, it's often easy to narrow the
>> number of choices enough to choose from the completion list...  (often
>> I'll guess a number of common terms for something, and get a hit after
>> 2-3)
>
> As an additional thought: this won't work for non-English speakers,
> right?

Let's worry about that after the user interface and manuals of Emacs
have been localized.  At the current point of time, this consideration
seems a bit silly.

-- 
David Kastrup




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