From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: char equivalence classes in search - why not symmetric? Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2015 16:15:17 -0400 Message-ID: References: <2a7b9134-af2a-462d-af6c-d02bad60bbe8@default> <834mjecdy7.fsf@gnu.org> <38061f42-eaf1-47c6-b74d-f676ac952b18@default> <83r3miatvl.fsf@gnu.org> <21998.29683.916211.867479@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <9A972800-D8F0-4DA8-877E-07D5BDC2E1F9@gmail.com> <87oahd11i9.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <8cf269bc-69d8-4752-8506-de8d992512e1@default> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1441743391 24285 80.91.229.3 (8 Sep 2015 20:16:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2015 20:16:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: stephen@xemacs.org, jean.christophe.helary@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 08 22:16:20 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZZPJJ-0007E6-KG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Sep 2015 22:16:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37150 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZZPJJ-0006sL-Vl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Sep 2015 16:16:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45292) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZZPIi-0006rq-8p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Sep 2015 16:15:33 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZZPIh-0003dQ-Fe for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Sep 2015 16:15:32 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:38057) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZZPIU-0003XV-Pp; Tue, 08 Sep 2015 16:15:18 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ZZPIT-0005s6-ST; Tue, 08 Sep 2015 16:15:17 -0400 In-reply-to: <8cf269bc-69d8-4752-8506-de8d992512e1@default> (message from Drew Adams on Tue, 8 Sep 2015 07:24:09 -0700 (PDT)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.10 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:189740 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Nothing more. What's good for `e' should be good for `é' and > all the rest. It's about equivalence classes. That would be a change for the worse, since it would reduce the range of searches that the user can specify with one character in the search. Currently the user can either search for "any kind of e" or "only é" or "only è" or "only ê", etc. With your change, the user would be limited to searching for "any kind of e". That would be a step back in flexibility. Since the current interface is fairly natural, there is no loss in offering the user all these options. I would not oppose offering a configuration setting to get the behavior you want. There is nothing to lose with that. But the current behavior is a more useful default than the behavior you would like. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.