Re: lax matching is not a great default behavior

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 10:33:14 +0100
>> From: Per Starbäck <per@starback.se>
>> Cc: rms@gnu.org, jwiegley@gmail.com, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>, 
>> 	"emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
>> 
>> > I see no real reasons yet for such a decision.  Character folding was
>> > introduced with the explicit goal of giving users what the other
>> > text-editing and word-processing environments provide, what they
>> > therefore are expected to expect.  To revert that decision will take
>> > more than just "I think it's wrong" kind of posts.
>> 
>> I didn't follow its creation, but I don't think users generally expect
>> that (yet). (I just checked searches in Gedit and Firefox where there
>> were no such features, at least not in the versions that are standard
>> in my operating system distribution.)
>
> Try more serious editing environments.  E.g., MS Word does that by
> default.

That's not editing but text processing.  So we are talking about
text-mode defaults here rather than general editing defaults.

-- 
David Kastrup