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: Wed, 09 Sep 2015 22:03:16 -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 1441850638 21992 80.91.229.3 (10 Sep 2015 02:03:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 02:03:58 +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 Thu Sep 10 04:03:48 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 1ZZrD5-0004vi-Od for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2015 04:03:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46428 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZZrD5-00021p-BV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2015 22:03:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57290) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZZrD0-0001y9-77 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2015 22:03:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZZrCz-0004pL-BH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2015 22:03:30 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:32969) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZZrCn-0004ke-0M; Wed, 09 Sep 2015 22:03:17 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ZZrCm-0001x4-9a; Wed, 09 Sep 2015 22:03:16 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Drew Adams on Wed, 9 Sep 2015 08:21:01 -0700 (PDT)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:189783 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. ]]] > > Currently the user can either search for "any kind of e" or "only é" > > or "only è" or "only ê", etc. I mean, that the user can do all of these with one character, not using any toggle command. > That would still be the case. > The only difference would be that when s?he wants to search for "any > kind of e" s?he can use any of the equivalent e-chars. No, another difference would be that NONE of the other options is possible with one character -- all would require a toggle command that people may not remember. (I don't.) > The point is that what you say is true currently would still be the > case with what is proposed in this thread. The user would continue > to be able to search for either any kind of e or for only a specific > kind of e. The user would continue to be able to do this _somehow_, but not as now without using a separate toggle command. -- 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.