• How to enter bullet points in Emacs

    From Cecil Westerhof@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jul 19 09:10:33 2017
    I have often things like the following:
    A list with bullet points:
    - Point one
    - Point two
    - Point three

    Works OK, but I like to use a ‘real’ bullet point instead of a minus
    sign. Is there a way to enter a real bullet point?
    I am working on a Linux system.

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    Cecil Westerhof
    Senior Software Engineer
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  • From Richard Kettlewell@21:1/5 to Cecil Westerhof on Wed Jul 19 09:11:37 2017
    Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> writes:
    I have often things like the following:
    A list with bullet points:
    - Point one
    - Point two
    - Point three

    Works OK, but I like to use a ‘real’ bullet point instead of a minus sign. Is there a way to enter a real bullet point?
    I am working on a Linux system.

    C-x 8 RET bullet RET

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  • From Cecil Westerhof@21:1/5 to Richard Kettlewell on Wed Jul 19 11:28:56 2017
    Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> writes:

    Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> writes:
    I have often things like the following:
    A list with bullet points:
    - Point one
    - Point two
    - Point three

    Works OK, but I like to use a ‘real’ bullet point instead of a minus
    sign. Is there a way to enter a real bullet point?
    I am working on a Linux system.

    C-x 8 RET bullet RET

    Thanks, that works like a charm.
    Now I have to make a list of interesting Unicode names. ;-)

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    Cecil Westerhof
    Senior Software Engineer
    LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof

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  • From Ivan Shmakov@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jul 19 12:42:17 2017
    Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> writes:
    Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> writes:
    Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> writes:

    I have often things like the following: A list with bullet points:
    - Point one - Point two - Point three

    Works OK, but I like to use a ‘real’ bullet point instead of a
    minus sign. Is there a way to enter a real bullet point? I am
    working on a Linux system.

    C-x 8 RET bullet RET

    Thanks, that works like a charm. Now I have to make a list of
    interesting Unicode names. ;-)

    The list at http://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/NamesList.txt
    worked pretty well for me so far.

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  • From Marko Rauhamaa@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jul 19 16:52:22 2017
    Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.net>:

    Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> writes:
    Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> writes:

    C-x 8 RET bullet RET

    Thanks, that works like a charm. Now I have to make a list of
    interesting Unicode names. ;-)

    The list at http://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/NamesList.txt
    worked pretty well for me so far.

    Hm, didn't do any good to me:

    C-x 8 RET woman getting massage: medium-light skin tone RET
    => Invalid character

    <URL: http://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html#1f486_1
    f3fc_200d_2640_fe0f>


    Marko

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  • From Michael Heerdegen@21:1/5 to Cecil Westerhof on Wed Jul 19 17:54:58 2017
    Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> writes:

    C-x 8 RET bullet RET

    Thanks, that works like a charm.
    Now I have to make a list of interesting Unicode names. ;-)

    Often, characters have a separate key binding under the C-x 8 prefix.
    In case of bullet, C-x 8 * *.

    C-x 8 C-h prints a list of those bindings.


    Michael.

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  • From Marko Rauhamaa@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jul 21 01:27:12 2017
    joe_f@verizon.net (Joseph C. Fineman):

    Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> writes:
    Hm, didn't do any good to me:

    C-x 8 RET woman getting massage: medium-light skin tone RET
    => Invalid character

    You left out "bullet RET".

    No, I didn't want a bullet — I wanted the "woman getting massage: medium-light skin tone" emoji:

    <URL: http://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html#1f486_1f
    3fc_200d_2640_fe0f>


    Marko

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  • From Joseph C. Fineman@21:1/5 to Marko Rauhamaa on Thu Jul 20 18:18:38 2017
    Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> writes:

    Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.net>:

    Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> writes:
    Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> writes:

    C-x 8 RET bullet RET

    Thanks, that works like a charm. Now I have to make a list of
    interesting Unicode names. ;-)

    The list at http://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/NamesList.txt
    worked pretty well for me so far.

    Hm, didn't do any good to me:

    C-x 8 RET woman getting massage: medium-light skin tone RET
    => Invalid character

    You left out "bullet RET".
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    ||: where you've been, but not where you're going. :||

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  • From Ivan Shmakov@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jul 23 11:15:54 2017
    Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> writes:
    Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.net>:
    Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> writes:

    [...]

    Thanks, that works like a charm. Now I have to make a list of
    interesting Unicode names. ;-)

    The list at http://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/NamesList.txt worked
    pretty well for me so far.

    Hm, didn't do any good to me:

    C-x 8 RET woman getting massage: medium-light skin tone RET =>
    Invalid character

    <URL: http://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html#1f486_1f3fc_200d_2640_fe0f>

    Just to be sure, I've redownloaded NameList.txt (10.0.0; the
    copy I had at hand was 6.1 from January 2012), and it doesn't
    seem to list any character by that name.

    I don't know much about Emacs emoji support, but given that
    C-x 8 RET CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER A WITH ACUTE RET does not seem
    to work right now (25.1.1 from Debian Stretch) either, I'd
    suppose that one's at least expected to enter the respective
    Unicode code points individually. Like:

    C-x 8 RET CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER A RET
    C-x 8 RET COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT RET

    C-x 8 RET 1f486 RET C-x 8 RET 1f3fc RET C-x 8 RET 200d RET
    C-x 8 RET 2640 RET C-x 8 RET fe0f RET

    Or, perhaps even easier:

    M-: (insert #x1f486 #x1f3fc #x200d #x2640 #xfe0f) RET

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  • From Marko Rauhamaa@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jul 23 15:33:00 2017
    Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.net>:

    I'd suppose that one's at least expected to enter the respective
    Unicode code points individually. Like:

    C-x 8 RET CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER A RET
    C-x 8 RET COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT RET

    C-x 8 RET 1f486 RET C-x 8 RET 1f3fc RET C-x 8 RET 200d RET
    C-x 8 RET 2640 RET C-x 8 RET fe0f RET

    Or, perhaps even easier:

    M-: (insert #x1f486 #x1f3fc #x200d #x2640 #xfe0f) RET

    And there's always M-x hexl-mode !


    Marko

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  • From Ivan Shmakov@21:1/5 to All on Tue Nov 14 16:12:16 2017
    Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> writes:
    Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.net>:

    I'd suppose that one's at least expected to enter the respective
    Unicode code points individually. Like:

    C-x 8 RET CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER A RET
    C-x 8 RET COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT RET

    C-x 8 RET 1f486 RET C-x 8 RET 1f3fc RET C-x 8 RET 200d RET
    C-x 8 RET 2640 RET C-x 8 RET fe0f RET

    Or, perhaps even easier:

    M-: (insert #x1f486 #x1f3fc #x200d #x2640 #xfe0f) RET

    And there's always M-x hexl-mode !

    Yet that's one whole level of abstraction below the #'insert
    above -- most noticeably in the case of UTF-8 (where, e. g.,
    #x2640 becomes \xe2\x99\x80.)

    Still, I've found some use for a hex editor a few weeks ago when
    I've found that I utterly forgot a passphrase of one of my SSH
    keys and had to resort to retrieving that key from a running
    ssh-agent(1) instance.

    I'm afraid I don't trust such a complex software as Emacs to
    handle data as sensitive as one of my primary private keys,
    however, so I've ended up using the 'tiny' build of Vim along
    with xxd(1) (to much the same effect as hexl-mode) instead.

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