From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dani Moncayo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: diacritic-fold-search? Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 20:31:01 +0100 Message-ID: References: <7780789C93764078879975BD66B0379F@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1354217485 2285 80.91.229.3 (29 Nov 2012 19:31:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 19:31:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Lewis Perin To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 29 20:31:37 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 1Te9pY-0003Yo-3o for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Nov 2012 20:31:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58759 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Te9pM-0003mv-Ll for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Nov 2012 14:31:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:46540) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Te9pE-0003jN-73 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Nov 2012 14:31:12 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Te9p8-00086r-93 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Nov 2012 14:31:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-ob0-f169.google.com ([209.85.214.169]:57858) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Te9p8-00086m-3w for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Nov 2012 14:31:02 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-ob0-f169.google.com with SMTP id lz20so15514333obb.0 for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2012 11:31:01 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=DP/lfdvOWFSQcQFW/SAN+MhtowaORjP4HOH/vNdCfVo=; b=lvZiyW2GywEZ1+EDVwqKsYhjVj21NjBI0GMbYVUmW9+6RGdBds8jQF7teraUAgEr5V ULYysQ2zJ2e2QRpyzYvPoBr1sKxYm14GAsEURQrZTvPHqhSOZey4j3Vw5EuMe3Wyphjx BjoS8E/uevyAc2xAtSVvChtLYdcWmfDqq5HyqixmQoF+hHi77UNfvAtAmEg23c72NPdu /sks+aq87m4JC7rLkpypd9AX+YUVYrsXy2tDRJRd9rF+wvJ4oCpyu6nrYGz2L9BHVnjO LlEOPlHtqfNLJpZ4ltPSczaoTXogQQSxwdRWF0yHHKa1en02xDCVTuGrEDz5I+mp7tAe Tc9g== Original-Received: by 10.60.171.228 with SMTP id ax4mr2571862oec.35.1354217461389; Thu, 29 Nov 2012 11:31:01 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.60.64.170 with HTTP; Thu, 29 Nov 2012 11:31:01 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <7780789C93764078879975BD66B0379F@us.oracle.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 209.85.214.169 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:87953 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 def= ault > (`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 ma= ny > (most?) search purposes it is handy to be able to treat them the same. +1 Definitely it would be a nice feature. Classify similar characters in groups, and provide the ability to do a group- or class-based search. --=20 Dani Moncayo