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bug#40216: 28.0.50; Misinformation in isearch char-fold
From: |
Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
bug#40216: 28.0.50; Misinformation in isearch char-fold |
Date: |
Fri, 27 Mar 2020 01:04:12 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
> >> 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"
I tried to find Røbert by typing Robert, but char-fold fails to find it.
A bug in char-fold?
- 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, 2020/03/26
- bug#40216: 28.0.50; Misinformation in isearch char-fold,
Juri Linkov <=
- 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