From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: character sets as they relate to =?utf-8?B?4oCcUmF34oCd?= string literals for elisp Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2021 20:42:44 +0300 Message-ID: <83k0inxvjf.fsf@gnu.org> References: <877der8smr.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83y2772y0s.fsf@gnu.org> <83sfxd1g05.fsf@gnu.org> <83tuhtyn46.fsf@gnu.org> <83o880zuxs.fsf@gnu.org> <838rz4ypkt.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="21877"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, juri@linkov.net, db48x@db48x.net, stefankangas@gmail.com, yuri.v.khan@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 08 19:44:46 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mYtvJ-0005Rl-RW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 08 Oct 2021 19:44:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44098 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mYtvH-0002al-T2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 08 Oct 2021 13:44:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36266) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mYttr-0001Po-Cq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Oct 2021 13:43:18 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:50016) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mYttn-0003KY-P2; Fri, 08 Oct 2021 13:43:11 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:3017 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mYttg-00087W-K0; Fri, 08 Oct 2021 13:43:04 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Alan Mackenzie on Fri, 8 Oct 2021 17:17:36 +0000) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:276574 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2021 17:17:36 +0000 > Cc: Stefan Kangas , rms@gnu.org, > yuri.v.khan@gmail.com, juri@linkov.net, db48x@db48x.net, > monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Alan Mackenzie > > I would suggest something slightly different which will solve the entire > problem rather than just part of it. Have the minor mode translate the > buffer text (temporarily) into ASCII rather than just displaying it thus. > That way the user can search for `foo' or ... simply by using C-s. Modifying the text of an Info manual is a bad idea for the reasons I explained in an earlier message.