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, 09 Sep 2015 11:07:19 -0400 Message-ID: References: <2a7b9134-af2a-462d-af6c-d02bad60bbe8@default> <834mjecdy7.fsf@gnu.org> <38061f42-eaf1-47c6-b74d-f676ac952b18@default> <83r3miatvl.fsf@gnu.org> <21998.29683.916211.867479@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <9A972800-D8F0-4DA8-877E-07D5BDC2E1F9@gmail.com> <87oahd11i9.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <8cf269bc-69d8-4752-8506-de8d992512e1@default> 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 1441811328 2551 80.91.229.3 (9 Sep 2015 15:08:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 15:08:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: stephen@xemacs.org, jean.christophe.helary@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 09 17:08:31 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 1ZZgz8-0002sH-6b for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2015 17:08:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43389 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZZgz3-0006CI-9f for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2015 11:08:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34077) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZZgyP-0005hK-AS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2015 11:07:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZZgyO-0007sh-E8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2015 11:07:45 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:53203) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZZgy0-0007dq-6O; Wed, 09 Sep 2015 11:07:20 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ZZgxz-0006X2-Bg; Wed, 09 Sep 2015 11:07:19 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Drew Adams on Tue, 8 Sep 2015 14:25:45 -0700 (PDT)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.10 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:189764 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. ]]] > > Currently the user can either search for "any kind of e" or "only é" > > or "only è" or "only ê", etc. > That would still be the case. > The only difference would be that when s?he wants to search for "any > kind of e" s?he can use any of the equivalent e-chars. Any of [eéèêæë] > would behave the same as `e' does not, when searching for any of [eéèêæë]. This seems to be a miscommunication. -- 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.