From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: case conversion by replace-match Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 14:24:08 -0600 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3EC93D68.4060506@yahoo.com> References: <16068.62114.573866.744811@tfkp07.physik.uni-erlangen.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1053391270 19801 80.91.224.249 (20 May 2003 00:41:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 00:41:10 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 20 02:41:08 2003 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 19HvBM-00057o-00 for ; Tue, 20 May 2003 02:40:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19Huwk-0003gn-01 for gnu-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 May 2003 20:25:38 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19Hts1-0003kU-3T for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 May 2003 19:16:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19Hseb-0000qb-Mk for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 May 2003 17:58:47 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19HsPg-0006ye-KY for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 May 2003 17:43:20 -0400 Original-Received: from root by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19HsMq-0006aX-00 for ; Mon, 19 May 2003 23:40:24 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19Hr9G-0000I8-00 for ; Mon, 19 May 2003 22:22:18 +0200 Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:5115 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:5115 Roland Winkler wrote: > Richard Stallman writes: >>replace-match only cares that the letters are upper case. >>It does not know you intend them to stand for something else. > > But then I would expect that "=E4" (umlaut-a) and "=F6" (umlaut-o) > should give rise to a case conversion, too. Or am I once again > missing something? No, your expectation is reasonable. But Emacs is inconsistent in how non-letters in REGEXP are treated. BTW, this inconsistency was not present in Emacs 19.34. -- Kevin Rodgers