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: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 06:28:41 -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> <4f3b1db3-d3d2-480f-8662-fbf7c74aa67f@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 1441967381 16996 80.91.229.3 (11 Sep 2015 10:29:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 10:29:41 +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 Fri Sep 11 12:29:31 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 1ZaLaF-0001jT-Gk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Sep 2015 12:29:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55228 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZaLaE-0002cj-JR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Sep 2015 06:29:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48849) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZaLZj-0002CH-D3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Sep 2015 06:29:00 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZaLZi-0004qC-KL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Sep 2015 06:28:59 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:34795) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZaLZR-0004Z9-Sx; Fri, 11 Sep 2015 06:28:41 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ZaLZR-0002Bf-8q; Fri, 11 Sep 2015 06:28:41 -0400 In-reply-to: <4f3b1db3-d3d2-480f-8662-fbf7c74aa67f@default> (message from Drew Adams on Wed, 9 Sep 2015 20:23:05 -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:189832 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. ]]] > > 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.) > NONE of what other options? Currently you can type a single character and do any of these things: * Search for A with or without any accent. * Search for Á only. * Search for À only. * Search for  only. * Search for Ä only. and likewise for each accented variant of A that exists in Unicode. With your change, all of those characters would do the same thing: search for A with or without any accent. So there would be only one thing you can do in regard to searching for As, without using some sort of toggling 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.