From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: "Per Starbäck" <per@starback.se>,
sb@dod.no, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Questions about isearch
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2015 22:35:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d1uwla0h.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83oaegtqxq.fsf@gnu.org>
On 2015-11-26, at 22:02, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> And what about etc/HELLO? what language is it in? [...]
And, as I mentioned a few times in various places, there is another case
(and unlike etc/HELLO, it actually happens IRL): bibliographies of
scientific papers. It is not uncommon for such a bibliography to
contain titles/journal names in various languages. (Probably the most
extreme example might be "Funkcialaj Ekvacioj", a Japanese journal with
an Esperanto title and mostly or only English papers.)
AFAIK (though I'm not 100% sure), standard LaTeX tools (i.e., BibLaTeX)
do not support such a situation (which is bad, since it is really needed
to have different hyphenation rules for different parts of these entries
- be glad that Emacs doesn't have to care about those!). Another LaTeX
bibliography tool, amsrefs, handles them well; but it's not very
popular.
For a less extreme example, consider e.g. Latin phrases in the midst of
an English text; not uncommon, for instance in law texts (but not only
there).
> So I think a per-buffer language attribute is the wrong way to go. We
> need a finer granularity.
Yes.
OTOH, my feeling is that a solution which would be correct 85% of the
time is better than no solution.
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/pl/Marcin_Borkowski
Wydział Matematyki i Informatyki
Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza
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2015-11-25 18:41 Questions about isearch Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-25 19:20 ` Rasmus
2015-11-25 20:02 ` Steinar Bang
2015-11-26 14:46 ` Richard Stallman
2015-11-26 16:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-26 20:46 ` Per Starbäck
2015-11-26 21:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-26 21:35 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2015-11-27 7:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-27 6:38 ` Richard Stallman
2015-11-27 8:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-27 16:21 ` raman
2015-11-26 23:18 ` Rasmus
2015-11-27 7:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-27 6:37 ` Richard Stallman
2015-11-27 8:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-25 20:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-25 20:41 ` Mike Kupfer
2015-11-25 20:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-25 20:14 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-25 20:30 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-11-25 20:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-25 21:58 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-25 23:04 ` Mike Kupfer
2015-11-26 3:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-27 19:50 ` Mike Kupfer
2015-11-27 20:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-27 23:57 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-28 1:36 ` Mike Kupfer
2015-11-28 9:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-26 13:28 ` Steinar Bang
2015-11-25 20:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-25 21:49 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-26 3:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-27 12:03 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-27 14:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-27 16:50 ` Per Starbäck
2015-11-27 18:10 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-27 18:42 ` Per Starbäck
2015-11-27 21:33 ` raman
2016-02-28 0:27 ` Mathias Dahl
2016-02-28 15:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-28 17:52 ` Mathias Dahl
2016-02-28 18:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-29 13:32 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-29 16:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-01 16:52 ` Richard Stallman
2015-11-27 16:55 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-27 17:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-27 21:18 ` Stephen Berman
2015-11-28 0:04 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-28 7:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-28 16:14 ` Stephen Berman
2015-11-28 5:36 ` Richard Stallman
2015-11-28 8:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-28 8:40 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-11-28 9:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-28 10:23 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-28 11:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-28 14:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-28 15:41 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-28 16:29 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-28 17:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-28 17:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-28 18:31 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-28 18:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-28 20:00 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-28 20:08 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-28 20:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-28 16:48 ` character folding future [was: Questions about isearch] Drew Adams
2015-11-28 18:34 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-12-01 11:34 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-12-01 15:48 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-03 23:54 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-29 6:03 ` Questions about isearch Richard Stallman
2015-11-29 15:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-29 9:39 ` Andreas Röhler
2015-11-29 15:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-30 9:39 ` Andreas Röhler
2015-11-30 15:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-30 16:05 ` Paul Eggert
2015-11-26 16:08 ` Rasmus
2015-11-25 23:15 ` Mike Kupfer
2015-11-26 14:45 ` Richard Stallman
2015-11-27 0:43 ` Juri Linkov
2015-11-27 8:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-27 23:24 ` Juri Linkov
2015-11-28 8:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-27 8:02 ` Andreas Röhler
2015-11-27 8:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-27 10:03 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-27 10:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-27 10:47 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-29 9:08 ` Andreas Röhler
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