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: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2016 14:54:00 -0500 Message-ID: References: <834mdc5w6o.fsf@gnu.org> <838u2hu6aq.fsf@gnu.org> <871t899tde.fsf@gnus.org> <83y4ahru04.fsf@gnu.org> <83fuwproyf.fsf@gnu.org> <837fi0sz29.fsf@gnu.org> <83egc8qzjh.fsf@gnu.org> <87egc7evu3.fsf@gnus.org> <83io1jpt4u.fsf@gnu.org> <87povqhj25.fsf@gnus.org> <87povqe5tr.fsf@gnus.org> <87ziuta4l4.fsf@gnus.org> <87y4adzcia.fsf@gnus.org> <83twl0k1k5.fsf@gnu.org> <83k2lvi99c.fsf@gnu.org> 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 1456602862 13309 80.91.229.3 (27 Feb 2016 19:54:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2016 19:54:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, lokedhs@gmail.com, larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Yuri Khan Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 27 20:54:17 2016 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 1aZkwT-0000Ku-LI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Feb 2016 20:54:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56089 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aZkwT-0003g1-6R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Feb 2016 14:54:17 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43295) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aZkwP-0003fc-Az for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Feb 2016 14:54:14 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aZkwO-0005Z3-DF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Feb 2016 14:54:13 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:49777) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aZkwE-0005TZ-G0; Sat, 27 Feb 2016 14:54:02 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aZkwC-0007Yn-TL; Sat, 27 Feb 2016 14:54:00 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Yuri Khan on Sat, 27 Feb 2016 11:47:22 +0600) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] 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:200725 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. ]]] > > If I saw an 'a' in the buffer, I'd like searching for 'a' to find it. > > Of course, I will search for a Latin 'a'. If the char in the buffer > > is a Cyrillic 'a', I want isearch to find that too. > You don’t usually see an “а” in isolation. In normal text, you see at > least a word, and usually a sentence. Those give you enough context to > know it’s not a Latin “a”. Often that is true. Nonetheless, I stand by what I said: I would rather have searching for Latin a match all a's. > Neither to me, though I might use a regexp isearch for [a-z] to > highlight all Latin letters in a paragraph where I expect none. It > would be confusing and misleading if it highlighted > [АВЕКМНОРСТХЬавеморстух]. Folding doesn't operate on [...], right? -- 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.