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 11:12:04 -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> <83pp1s7w1m.fsf@gnu.org> <87lhcg38x7.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83y4gg5n4q.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1441811584 7325 80.91.229.3 (9 Sep 2015 15:13:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 15:13:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, juri@linkov.net, ulm@gentoo.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: bruce.connor.am@gmail.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 09 17:12:48 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 1ZZh32-00073L-Ep for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2015 17:12:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43416 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZZh32-0008R8-EN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2015 11:12:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37482) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZZh2o-0008Qm-85 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2015 11:12:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZZh2n-0003Va-E1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2015 11:12:18 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:53359) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZZh2b-0003Bi-RA; Wed, 09 Sep 2015 11:12:05 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ZZh2a-0003u6-Fj; Wed, 09 Sep 2015 11:12:04 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Artur Malabarba on Wed, 9 Sep 2015 12:23:54 +0100) 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:189765 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. ]]] > I'd much rather we focus effort on making the equiv-classes easier to customize. Let's not call them "equiv-classes", because that term presupposes symmetry. (An equivalence relation is symmetric.) Let's call them search classes for characters. -- 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.