From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Questions about isearch Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2015 22:06:54 +0200 Message-ID: <83poyvqk9t.fsf@gnu.org> References: <2844.1448653818@allegro.localdomain> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1448654862 26878 80.91.229.3 (27 Nov 2015 20:07:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2015 20:07:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Mike Kupfer Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 27 21:07:25 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 1a2PIi-0001cr-E4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Nov 2015 21:07:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58372 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a2PIl-0002fG-75 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Nov 2015 15:07:27 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53919) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a2PIX-0002f6-0S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Nov 2015 15:07:13 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a2PIT-0008IO-Qi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Nov 2015 15:07:12 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout25.012.net.il ([80.179.55.181]:56515) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a2PIT-0008IK-IH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Nov 2015 15:07:09 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout25.012.net.il by mtaout25.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NYH00F00OI11Z00@mtaout25.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Nov 2015 22:04:21 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by mtaout25.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NYH008Z7P380370@mtaout25.012.net.il>; Fri, 27 Nov 2015 22:04:21 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <2844.1448653818@allegro.localdomain> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.181 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:195413 Archived-At: > From: Mike Kupfer > cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2015 11:50:18 -0800 >=20 > Assuming that there won't be any major changes for 25.1 in this are= a, I > think it would be helpful for the "Lax Search" Info node to say > something about replace-character-fold, particularly since that nod= e > mentions the relationship between case-fold-search and replace comm= ands. > And maybe replace-character-fold should be listed in the "Search > Customizations" node? There's a companion node "Replacement and Lax Matches", which describes this variable. > Also, I'm confused about the exact semantics of replace-character-f= old. > Its help string says it applies to query-replace. That's a mistake that should be fixed, thanks. > Experimentation shows that it also applies to replace-string, but > not replace-regexp ("[ab]" does not match "=C3=A4" even when > replace-character-fold is non-nil). I'm not sure what's intended > here, particularly since replace-regexp does honor case-fold-search= . Not sure whether this is intended, please submit a bug report. > And speaking of case-fold-search, it is documented as buffer-local = when > set. Should search-default-regexp-mode and replace-character-fold = do > the same? No, I don't think so. case-fold-search is not only for searching commands, so it follows a different logic.