From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: diacritic-fold-search? Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 11:10:42 -0800 Message-ID: <7780789C93764078879975BD66B0379F@us.oracle.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1354216258 20935 80.91.229.3 (29 Nov 2012 19:10:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 19:10:58 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Lewis Perin'" , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 29 20:11:10 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1Te9Vt-000690-9h for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Nov 2012 20:11:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46883 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Te9Vh-0004Db-Sb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Nov 2012 14:10:57 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:39776) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Te9VY-00046x-Di for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Nov 2012 14:10:49 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Te9VX-0001Lf-Ey for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Nov 2012 14:10:48 -0500 Original-Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:44313) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Te9VX-0001LL-52 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Nov 2012 14:10:47 -0500 Original-Received: from ucsinet22.oracle.com (ucsinet22.oracle.com [156.151.31.94]) by aserp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2) with ESMTP id qATJAj9I023830 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Thu, 29 Nov 2012 19:10:46 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt358.oracle.com (acsmt358.oracle.com [141.146.40.158]) by ucsinet22.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id qATJAida011384 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 29 Nov 2012 19:10:44 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt115.oracle.com (abhmt115.oracle.com [141.146.116.67]) by acsmt358.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id qATJAisC021563; Thu, 29 Nov 2012 13:10:44 -0600 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/130.35.178.8) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Thu, 29 Nov 2012 11:10:43 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 In-Reply-To: Thread-Index: Ac3OY9L1+M2ocvokSZyRizwS07ZKTwAAE3cg X-Source-IP: ucsinet22.oracle.com [156.151.31.94] 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: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:87952 Archived-At: > It may not be totally irrelevant to note that search engines make > diacritic-agnostic search the default. And some Web browsers (Chrome > but not Firefox) do this for searches of a page they=92re displaying. Another good point. Emacs has always made search case-insensitive by = default (`case-fold-search' is t), presumably for the same reason. IMHO, it would be good for Emacs to handle this the same way it handles case-sensitivity: off by default, with a simple toggle to turn it on. `a' is no more the same as `A' than `=E8' is the same as `e'. But for = many (most?) search purposes it is handy to be able to treat them the same.