bug#24902: Antw: Re: bug#24902: 25.1; C-x = for Unicode

[Mark Oteiza]

Marcin Borkowski <mbork@amu.edu.pl> writes:
> On 2016-11-08, at 20:53, Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz> wrote:
>
>> On 09/11/16 02:49, Ulrich Windl wrote:
>>> What I'd like to see is something like this:
>>> "Char:   (8199, #o20007, #x2007, "FIGURE SPACE") point=880 of 880 (99%)
>>> column=0"
>>
>> For long unicode names that's more like:
>>
>> "Char:   (11137, #o25601, #x2b81, "UPWARDS TRIANGLE-HEADED ARROW
>> LEFTWARDS OF DOWNWARDS TRIANGLE-HEADED ARROW", file ...) point=146 of
>> 146 (99%) column=0"
>>
>> Which is definitely wrapping in an 80 column terminal.
>
> Fair enough.  OTOH, I =was= aware of C-u C-x =, but I'd still want the
> behavior Ulrich wrote about, possibly enabled through an option.
> I could actually write a patch to do it, WDYT?

I think describe-char-eldoc is useful for this purpose