From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: lax matching is not a great default behavior Date: Sat, 05 Dec 2015 00:08:58 +0100 Message-ID: <87fuzhu7zp.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> 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 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1449270564 25088 80.91.229.3 (4 Dec 2015 23:09:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 23:09:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Richard Stallman , John Wiegley , emacs-devel , Per =?iso-8859-1?Q?Starb=E4ck?= , Eli Zaretskii , Drew Adams To: Artur Malabarba Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 05 00:09:23 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 1a4zTe-0006Bi-Vx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Dec 2015 00:09:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43876 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a4zTe-0002rL-AT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 18:09:22 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43331) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a4zTR-0002mO-JM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 18:09:10 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a4zTQ-00061r-To for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 18:09:09 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:59775) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a4zTO-0005yr-Gr; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 18:09:06 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45360 helo=lola) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1a4zTH-00005o-4q; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 18:08:59 -0500 Original-Received: by lola (Postfix, from userid 1000) id CCFE5DF4A1; Sat, 5 Dec 2015 00:08:58 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: (Artur Malabarba's message of "Fri, 4 Dec 2015 22:37:59 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:195908 Archived-At: Artur Malabarba writes: > 2015-12-04 22:16 GMT+00:00 David Kastrup : >>> AFAICT, "character folding" is as good as we've come up >>> with, so far - not some specific kind of character folding. >> >> How about "fuzzy matching"? > > That means something else to most people: to be able to skip some > characters and still match. Isn't that Soundex matching more or less? -- David Kastrup