From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: lax matching is not a great default behavior Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 15:57:47 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <73f021ef-0708-4b64-b9fa-7c1dabdf0976@default> References: > <837fl2qzs2.fsf@gnu.org>> > > <83610ikvto.fsf@gnu.org>> > <83bna6ipn7.fsf@gnu.org>> <45e1580a-863c-4bd7-82ec-38c27a0d930e@default>> <831tb2ghkf.fsf@gnu.org>> <87si3huaey.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1449273499 3478 80.91.229.3 (4 Dec 2015 23:58:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 23:58:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jwiegley@gmail.com, Eli Zaretskii , per@starback.se, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 05 00:58:06 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 1a50El-0006Lf-G6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Dec 2015 00:58:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43979 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a50Ek-0007AX-QH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 18:58:02 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53654) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a50Eh-0007AS-TU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 18:58:00 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a50Eh-00039N-6O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 18:57:59 -0500 Original-Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:18649) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a50Ec-00038Z-GN; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 18:57:54 -0500 Original-Received: from aserv0022.oracle.com (aserv0022.oracle.com [141.146.126.234]) by aserp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id tB4NvpCX000619 (version=TLSv1 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 4 Dec 2015 23:57:51 GMT Original-Received: from userv0121.oracle.com (userv0121.oracle.com [156.151.31.72]) by aserv0022.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id tB4NvoEc025368 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL); Fri, 4 Dec 2015 23:57:51 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0012.oracle.com (abhmp0012.oracle.com [141.146.116.18]) by userv0121.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id tB4NvnmE006854; Fri, 4 Dec 2015 23:57:49 GMT In-Reply-To: <87si3huaey.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.9 (901082) [OL 12.0.6691.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: aserv0022.oracle.com [141.146.126.234] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 141.146.126.69 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:195909 Archived-At: > > AFAICT, "character folding" is as good as we've come up > > with, so far - not some specific kind of character folding. >=20 > How about "fuzzy matching"? Too fuzzy. ;-) It means _less_ than character folding. This is a case of folding (abstracting from) certain characteristics of characters. (I have no problem with our calling it character folding. But if there is a more specific name for kind of character folding we're doing here, let's hear it.)