From: Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>
To: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
Cc: "Juan Manuel Macías" <maciaschain@posteo.net>,
orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [tip/offtopic] A function to describe the characters of a word at point
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2022 15:30:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJcAo8sScy-yXdmg1XaaiyjTehKQw+Lgn9D_7AW1Z85Gd9jxmA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87edyn4sal.fsf@mbork.pl>
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 <mbork@mbork.pl> wrote:
>
> On 2022-07-13, at 12:49, Juan Manuel Macías <maciaschain@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
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-07-14 22:32 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 [this message]
2022-07-15 0:56 ` Juan Manuel Macías
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