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From: "Juan Manuel Macías" <maciaschain@posteo.net>
To: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
Cc: Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>, orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [tip/offtopic] A function to describe the characters of a word at point
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2022 00:56:41 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o7xrdwhi.fsf@posteo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87edyn4sal.fsf@mbork.pl> (Marcin Borkowski's message of "Thu, 14 Jul 2022 17:42:08 +0200")

Hi, Marcin and Samuel, thanks for your comments,

Marcin Borkowski writes:

> 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.

I also have written a smaller function to display a quick information of
a single character at point, something much simpler and not as verbose
as describe-char. But it had never occurred to me to do something
eldoc-like with it. In my case, although for those contexts I prefer
quick information (describe-char also has its relaxing moment), I don't
feel such an urgency :-).

In any case, something quick and dirty, just as a proof of concept,
could be this:

(define-minor-mode char-info-at-point-mode
  "TODO"
  :init-value nil
  :lighter ("chinfo")
  (if char-info-at-point-mode
      (add-hook 'post-command-hook #'char-name-at-point nil t)    
    (remove-hook 'post-command-hook #'char-name-at-point 'local)))

(defun char-name-at-point ()
  (interactive)
  (let* ((char-name (get-char-code-property (char-after (point)) 'name))
	 (code (format "#%x" (char-after (point))))
	 (dec (get-char-code-property (char-after (point)) 'decomposition))
	 (info (concat
		char-name
		" / "
		code
		" / descomp: "
		dec
		"\s"
		(mapconcat (lambda (cod)
			     (format "#%x" cod))
			   dec "\s+\s"))))
    (message info)))

Best regards,

Juan Manuel 

     prev parent reply	other threads:[~2022-07-15  0:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-13 10:49 [tip/offtopic] A function to describe the characters of a word at point Juan Manuel Macías
2022-07-14 15:42 ` Marcin Borkowski
2022-07-14 22:30   ` Samuel Wales
2022-07-15  0:56   ` Juan Manuel Macías [this message]

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