From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Searching for command options in man pages (searching for a hyphen not represented by ASCII 2d) Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 00:48:18 +0200 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3791-Sun23Feb2003004817+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> References: <836fa09a.0302201043.2a6d948b@posting.google.com> <87lm0a7ojl.fsf@wesley.springies.com><3E5664A5.3020105@ihs.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1045954379 29879 80.91.224.249 (22 Feb 2003 22:52:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 22:52:59 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18miVu-0007lk-00 for ; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 23:52:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18miVT-0002dN-03 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 17:52:31 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18miV4-0002aB-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 17:52:06 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18miV2-0002X7-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 17:52:05 -0500 Original-Received: from gandalf.inter.net.il ([192.114.186.22]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18miV1-0002Uv-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 17:52:04 -0500 Original-Received: from zaretsky (adsl-ayalon-pc-129-174.inter.net.il [213.8.129.174]) by gandalf.inter.net.il (Mirapoint Messaging Server MOS 3.2.2-GA) with ESMTP id AGJ65805; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 00:52:01 +0200 (IST) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailer: emacs 21.3.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 1.8.9 In-reply-to: <3E5664A5.3020105@ihs.com> (message from Kevin Rodgers on Fri, 21 Feb 2003 10:40:53 -0700) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:7034 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:7034 > From: Kevin Rodgers > Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help > Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 10:40:53 -0700 > > > > Not only that, but I think the unicode hyphen (-) is different from > > the unicode dash (--). Bleh. So you have searching for b is > > different than searching for backup. > > So we should bind "-" in isearch-mode-map like " " is bound: to a special > command that searches for a regexp that matches these variations. That's ridiculous: next we will bind each Latin-2 letter to a regexp that matches both ISO-8859 and Unicode varieties. Then we do the same with all the other Latin-n characters. Then we do that for Greek, Hebrew, and whatsnot. Come on! Isn't it easier to configure `man' to produce ASCII or Latin-1 formatted pages?