> Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2017 00:51:59 +0100 > Cc: Julian Bradfield <[email protected]> > From: Richard Wordingham via Unicode <[email protected]> > > On Sat, 22 Apr 2017 21:39:42 +0100 (BST) > Julian Bradfield via Unicode <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 2017-04-22, Eli Zaretskii via Unicode <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I could imagine Emacs decomposing characters temporarily when only > > > part of a cluster matches the search string. Assuming this would > > > make sense to users of some complex scripts, that is. You are > > > welcome to suggest such a feature by using report-emacs-bug. > > The cursor moves to the cluster boundary, so there is much less of a > problem with Emacs.
But you wanted to highlight only part of the cluster, AFAIU. > > That's what I do in my emacs with combining characters, and if I had > > complex script support, I'd expect the same to happen there. > > emacs is a programmer's editor, after all :) > > Emacs probably has a way of toggling complex script support somewhere. > I'm torn between seeing the text properly set out and seeing exactly > what it is that I've typed. 'Reveal codes' doesn't seem widely > supported. "M-x auto-composition-mode RET" should do what you want.
