From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: char equivalence classes in search - why not symmetric? Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2015 11:34:28 -0400 Message-ID: References: <2a7b9134-af2a-462d-af6c-d02bad60bbe8@default> <834mjecdy7.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1441208099 23266 80.91.229.3 (2 Sep 2015 15:34:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 15:34:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 02 17:34:50 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 1ZXA3l-0000ra-Vl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Sep 2015 17:34:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38768 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZXA3m-0004rH-3n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Sep 2015 11:34:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36354) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZXA3Z-0004qV-M2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Sep 2015 11:34:38 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZXA3Y-0005P7-TK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Sep 2015 11:34:37 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:37119) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZXA3R-0005LX-R6; Wed, 02 Sep 2015 11:34:29 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ZXA3Q-0001XW-MI; Wed, 02 Sep 2015 11:34:28 -0400 In-reply-to: <834mjecdy7.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Tue, 01 Sep 2015 19:16:32 +0300) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). 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:189464 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] Since it is possible to search for only 'รก', it would be nice to have some convenient way to search only for 'a' with no accents. The only convenient interface I can think of is that you type, in a postfix input method, a ' DEL. Currently that is equivalent to typing just a. But we could conceivably make it different. Can someone think of some other interface for this? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.