> Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 00:23:59 +0100 > From: Richard Wordingham via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org> > > > I'm well aware of the official position. However, when we attempted > > to implement it unconditionally in Emacs, some people objected, and > > brought up good reasons. You can, of course, elect to disregard this > > experience, and instead learn it from your own. > > Is there a good record of these complaints anywhere?
You could look up these discussions: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2016-02/msg00189.html https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2016-02/msg00506.html > (It would occasionally be useful to have an easily issued command > like 'delete preceding NFD codepoint'.) I agree. Emacs commands that delete characters backward (usually invoked by the Backspace key) do that automatically, if the text before cursor was produced by composing several codepoints. > I did mention above that occasionally one needs to know what > codepoints were used and in what order. Sure. There's an Emacs command (C-u C-x =) which shows that information for the text at a given position.