Re: [tip/offtopic] A function to describe the characters of a word at point

2022-07-14 Thread Juan Manuel Macías
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 > o

Re: [tip/offtopic] A function to describe the characters of a word at point

2022-07-14 Thread Samuel Wales
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. requi

Re: [tip/offtopic] A function to describe the characters of a word at point

2022-07-14 Thread Marcin Borkowski
On 2022-07-13, at 12:49, Juan Manuel Macías 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 someth

[tip/offtopic] A function to describe the characters of a word at point

2022-07-13 Thread Juan Manuel Macías
Sorry for the slight offtopic. 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 i