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 <[email protected]> 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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Richard Kettlewell <[email protected]d> writes:

Cecil Westerhof <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> writes:
Richard Kettlewell <[email protected]d> writes:
Cecil Westerhof <[email protected]> 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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Ivan Shmakov <[email protected]>:

Cecil Westerhof <[email protected]> writes:
Richard Kettlewell <[email protected]d> 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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Cecil Westerhof <[email protected]> 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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[email protected] (Joseph C. Fineman):

Marko Rauhamaa <[email protected]> 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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Marko Rauhamaa <[email protected]> writes:

Ivan Shmakov <[email protected]>:

Cecil Westerhof <[email protected]> writes:
Richard Kettlewell <[email protected]d> 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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Marko Rauhamaa <[email protected]> writes:
Ivan Shmakov <[email protected]>:
Cecil Westerhof <[email protected]> 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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Ivan Shmakov <[email protected]>:

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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Marko Rauhamaa <[email protected]> writes:
Ivan Shmakov <[email protected]>:

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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