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bug#40216: 28.0.50; Misinformation in isearch char-fold
From: |
Robert Pluim |
Subject: |
bug#40216: 28.0.50; Misinformation in isearch char-fold |
Date: |
Thu, 26 Mar 2020 16:43:10 +0100 |
>>>>> On Thu, 26 Mar 2020 16:25:14 +0200, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> said:
>> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
>> Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2020 10:28:55 +0100
>> Cc: 40216@debbugs.gnu.org
>>
>> Do we need an option to char-fold-regexp that says 'only apply
>> char-folding to non-ascii characters'?
Eli> But this feature is not intended only to find variants of non-ASCII
Eli> characters when one searches for a non-ASCII, it is also intended to
Eli> find variants when searching for ASCII characters. For example,
Eli> searching for a is supposed to find ä and à and á. Or am I missing
Eli> something?
Yes, thatʼs exactly right. But in the case where you have mainly
characters where you donʼt want case-folding, it might make sense to
restrict the folding to non-ascii as an optimisation. eg. Suppose my
name were Røbert, with people frequently misspelling it as Robert, I
might want isearch to just search for "R\\(?:ǿ\\|[øǿo]\\)bert"
Røbert
- bug#40216: 28.0.50; Misinformation in isearch char-fold, Juri Linkov, 2020/03/24
- bug#40216: 28.0.50; Misinformation in isearch char-fold, Robert Pluim, 2020/03/25
- bug#40216: 28.0.50; Misinformation in isearch char-fold, Juri Linkov, 2020/03/25
- bug#40216: 28.0.50; Misinformation in isearch char-fold, Robert Pluim, 2020/03/26
- bug#40216: 28.0.50; Misinformation in isearch char-fold, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/03/26
- bug#40216: 28.0.50; Misinformation in isearch char-fold,
Robert Pluim <=
- bug#40216: 28.0.50; Misinformation in isearch char-fold, Juri Linkov, 2020/03/26
- bug#40216: 28.0.50; Misinformation in isearch char-fold, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/03/27
- bug#40216: 28.0.50; Misinformation in isearch char-fold, Robert Pluim, 2020/03/27
- bug#40216: 28.0.50; Misinformation in isearch char-fold, Juri Linkov, 2020/03/29
- bug#40216: 28.0.50; Misinformation in isearch char-fold, Juri Linkov, 2020/03/26