On Monday, November 27, 2017 at 10:49:35 PM UTC+5:30, Skip Montanaro wrote: > > I strongly suspect that any recent emacs will have M-x insert-char > > (earlier it was called ucs-insert) default bound C-x 8 RET (yeah thats > > clunky) > > which will accept at the minibuffer input > > I tried C-x 8 e acute TAB > > and was prompted with "E-acute". I don't know why it would have > capitalized the "e".
Unicode codepoint names are (evidently) ALLCAPS-ASCII Still, I plowed ahead and hit RET > > which yielded an "Invalid character" message in the minibuffer. Unicode is a million+ codepoints Hundred thousand+ of which are assigned This means that (as an analogy) emacs is fishing around in a 100,000 line file which contains lines like LATIN SMALL LETTER A:a:0x61 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A:A:0x41 DIGIT ONE:1:0x31 ... 100,000 such lines… one of which is LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE:é:0xe9 [Just now fishing around I find its worse than that C-u C-x = tells me: character: é (displayed as é) (codepoint 233, #o351, #xe9) name: LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE old-name: LATIN SMALL LETTER E ACUTE general-category: Ll (Letter, Lowercase) So those hundred thousand chars can have multiple names!! And that constitutes the search space ] So now coming to your attempt: [ Writing this mail, Ive finally done: (global-set-key (kbd "<f9>") 'insert-char) which allows me to use F9 instead of the clunky C-x 8 RET I'll assume that binding following ] If I type F9*e acuteTAB I get 121 possibilities: CANADIAN SYLLABICS FINAL DOUBLE ACUTE (ᐥ) COMBINING DOTTED ACUTE ACCENT (᷁) COMBINING DOUBLE ACUTE ACCENT (̋) CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER U WITH DOUBLE ACUTE (Ӳ) CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER U WITH DOUBLE ACUTE (ӳ) DEVANAGARI ACUTE ACCENT (॔) DOUBLE ACUTE ACCENT (˝) GREEK UPSILON WITH ACUTE AND HOOK SYMBOL (ϓ) LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A ACUTE (Á) LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH ACUTE (Á) LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH BREVE AND ACUTE (Ắ) LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX AND ACUTE (Ấ) LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE AND ACUTE (Ǻ) LATIN CAPITAL LETTER AE WITH ACUTE (Ǽ) LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C ACUTE (Ć) LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH ACUTE (Ć) LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA AND ACUTE (Ḉ) LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E ACUTE (É) LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH ACUTE (É) LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH CIRCUMFLEX AND ACUTE (Ế) LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH MACRON AND ACUTE (Ḗ) LATIN CAPITAL LETTER G WITH ACUTE (Ǵ) LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I ACUTE (Í) LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH ACUTE (Í) LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH DIAERESIS AND ACUTE (Ḯ) LATIN CAPITAL LETTER K WITH ACUTE (Ḱ) LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L ACUTE (Ĺ) LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L WITH ACUTE (Ĺ) LATIN CAPITAL LETTER M WITH ACUTE (Ḿ) LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N ACUTE (Ń) LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH ACUTE (Ń) LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O ACUTE (Ó) LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O DOUBLE ACUTE (Ő) LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH ACUTE (Ó) LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH CIRCUMFLEX AND ACUTE (Ố) LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH DOUBLE ACUTE (Ő) LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH HORN AND ACUTE (Ớ) LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH MACRON AND ACUTE (Ṓ) LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH STROKE AND ACUTE (Ǿ) LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH TILDE AND ACUTE (Ṍ) LATIN CAPITAL LETTER P WITH ACUTE (Ṕ) LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R ACUTE (Ŕ) LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R WITH ACUTE (Ŕ) LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S ACUTE (Ś) LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH ACUTE (Ś) LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH ACUTE AND DOT ABOVE (Ṥ) LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U ACUTE (Ú) LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U DIAERESIS ACUTE (Ǘ) LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U DOUBLE ACUTE (Ű) LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH ACUTE (Ú) LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS AND ACUTE (Ǘ) LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH DOUBLE ACUTE (Ű) LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH HORN AND ACUTE (Ứ) LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH TILDE AND ACUTE (Ṹ) LATIN CAPITAL LETTER W WITH ACUTE (Ẃ) LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y ACUTE (Ý) LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH ACUTE (Ý) LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z ACUTE (Ź) LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH ACUTE (Ź) LATIN SMALL LETTER A ACUTE (á) LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH ACUTE (á) LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH BREVE AND ACUTE (ắ) LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX AND ACUTE (ấ) LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE AND ACUTE (ǻ) LATIN SMALL LETTER AE WITH ACUTE (ǽ) LATIN SMALL LETTER C ACUTE (ć) LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH ACUTE (ć) LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA AND ACUTE (ḉ) LATIN SMALL LETTER E ACUTE (é) LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE (é) LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH CIRCUMFLEX AND ACUTE (ế) LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH MACRON AND ACUTE (ḗ) LATIN SMALL LETTER G WITH ACUTE (ǵ) LATIN SMALL LETTER I ACUTE (í) LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH ACUTE (í) LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH DIAERESIS AND ACUTE (ḯ) LATIN SMALL LETTER K WITH ACUTE (ḱ) LATIN SMALL LETTER L ACUTE (ĺ) LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH ACUTE (ĺ) LATIN SMALL LETTER M WITH ACUTE (ḿ) LATIN SMALL LETTER N ACUTE (ń) LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH ACUTE (ń) LATIN SMALL LETTER O ACUTE (ó) LATIN SMALL LETTER O DOUBLE ACUTE (ő) LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH ACUTE (ó) LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH CIRCUMFLEX AND ACUTE (ố) LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DOUBLE ACUTE (ő) LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH HORN AND ACUTE (ớ) LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH MACRON AND ACUTE (ṓ) LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH STROKE AND ACUTE (ǿ) LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH TILDE AND ACUTE (ṍ) LATIN SMALL LETTER P WITH ACUTE (ṕ) LATIN SMALL LETTER R ACUTE (ŕ) LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH ACUTE (ŕ) LATIN SMALL LETTER S ACUTE (ś) LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH ACUTE (ś) LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH ACUTE AND DOT ABOVE (ṥ) LATIN SMALL LETTER U ACUTE (ú) LATIN SMALL LETTER U DIAERESIS ACUTE (ǘ) LATIN SMALL LETTER U DOUBLE ACUTE (ű) LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH ACUTE (ú) LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS AND ACUTE (ǘ) LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH DOUBLE ACUTE (ű) LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH HORN AND ACUTE (ứ) LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH TILDE AND ACUTE (ṹ) LATIN SMALL LETTER W WITH ACUTE (ẃ) LATIN SMALL LETTER Y ACUTE (ý) LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH ACUTE (ý) LATIN SMALL LETTER Z ACUTE (ź) LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH ACUTE (ź) MODIFIER LETTER ACUTE (ˊ) MODIFIER LETTER ACUTE ACCENT (ˊ) MODIFIER LETTER LOW ACUTE (ˏ) MODIFIER LETTER LOW ACUTE ACCENT (ˏ) MODIFIER LETTER MIDDLE DOUBLE ACUTE ACCENT (˶) NON-SPACING DOUBLE ACUTE (̋) SPACING DOUBLE ACUTE (˝) Clearly reducing the search space seems called for! Adding a latin in front to now search for latin*e acute And then Tab expanding gives LATIN *L LETTER ACUTE [Why did the E disappear?? Dunno] Put it back and TAB gives LATIN *AL LETTER E ACUTE Tab once more the choices now are these 7 and more manageable?? LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E ACUTE (É) LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH ACUTE (É) LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH CIRCUMFLEX AND ACUTE (Ế) LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH MACRON AND ACUTE (Ḗ) LATIN SMALL LETTER E ACUTE (é) LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE (é) LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH CIRCUMFLEX AND ACUTE (ế) LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH MACRON AND ACUTE (ḗ) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
