good idea for command. i like the additional ideas too like the help text [i hae that put in echo area even in gui].
for even more blue sky stuff, i was thinking along the lines of information about characters, such as en/locale meanings for cjk. or furigana [ruby text] for the echo area. requires lookup though. (to go along with meanings for input method. :)) On 7/14/22, Marcin Borkowski <mb...@mbork.pl> wrote: > > On 2022-07-13, at 12:49, Juan Manuel Macías <maciasch...@posteo.net> wrote: > >> Sorry for the slight offtopic. > > Not off-topic at all, as far as I'm concerned! (Though sending this to > help-gnu-emacs might be an even better idea.) I use `C-u C-x =' pretty > often, so I fully understand why someone might want to code something > like this. Very nice, thanks for sharing! > > You might want to extend it and create a minor mode which would display > data about the current character in the echo area, Eldoc-style, or in > a tooltip when you hover the mouse pointer over a character. Depending > on what exactly you need, these ideas might be more or less useful, of > course. > > Also, since the answer to quite a few org-related issues seems to be > "just insert a zero-width space", making those stand out (like > non-breaking spaces already are) could also be useful. FWIW, I have > this function in my init.el: > > (defun insert-zero-width-space () > "Insert Unicode character \"zero-width space\"." > (interactive) > (insert "")) > > (of course, the 0-width space is invisible between the quotes). > > Best, > mbork > > > >> Since Unicode and character issues come up here from time to time, I'm >> sharing this 'homemade' function that I wrote a long time ago for my >> work, in case someone finds it useful. It Shows a brief descriptive list >> of all characters in a word at point. Each character includes the >> Unicode name, code, and canonical decomposition. Example: >> >> ἄρχοντα >> >> >> ἄ (#1f04) ... GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH PSILI AND OXIA ... descomp: >> #1f00 #301 >> ρ (#3c1) ... GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO ... descomp: #3c1 >> χ (#3c7) ... GREEK SMALL LETTER CHI ... descomp: #3c7 >> ο (#3bf) ... GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON ... descomp: #3bf >> ν (#3bd) ... GREEK SMALL LETTER NU ... descomp: #3bd >> τ (#3c4) ... GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU ... descomp: #3c4 >> α (#3b1) ... GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA ... descomp: #3b1 >> >> >> #+begin_src emacs-lisp >> (defun describe-chars-word-at-point () >> (interactive) >> (setq chars-in-word nil) >> (if >> (not (current-word t t)) >> (error "Not in a word at point...") >> (let >> ((word (current-word t t))) >> (save-excursion >> (with-temp-buffer >> (insert word) >> (goto-char (point-min)) >> (while (re-search-forward "\\(.\\)" nil t) >> (let* ((char-name (save-excursion >> (backward-char) >> (get-char-code-property (char-after >> (point)) 'name))) >> (char-desc (save-excursion >> (backward-char) >> (get-char-code-property (char-after >> (point)) 'decomposition))) >> (char-format (concat (match-string 1) "\s" "(" >> (format "#%x" (string-to-char >> (match-string 1))) >> ")\s...\s" char-name >> "\s...\sdecomp:\s" >> (mapconcat (lambda (cod) >> (format "#%x" >> cod)) >> char-desc " ")))) >> (push char-format chars-in-word))) >> (when (get-buffer "*chars in word*") >> (kill-buffer "*chars in word*")) >> (get-buffer-create "*chars in word*") >> (set-buffer "*chars in word*") >> (insert (mapconcat 'identity >> (reverse chars-in-word) "\n")) >> (view-mode) >> (temp-buffer-window-show "*chars in word*" >> '((display-buffer-below-selected >> display-buffer-at-bottom) >> (inhibit-same-window . t) >> (window-height . >> fit-window-to-buffer)))) >> (pop-to-buffer "*chars in word*"))))) >> #+end_src > > > -- > Marcin Borkowski > http://mbork.pl > > -- The Kafka Pandemic A blog about science, health, human rights, and misopathy: https://thekafkapandemic.blogspot.com