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: Sat, 12 Sep 2015 11:28:53 -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> <4f3b1db3-d3d2-480f-8662-fbf7c74aa67f@default> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1442071771 22942 80.91.229.3 (12 Sep 2015 15:29:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2015 15:29:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: stephen@xemacs.org, jean.christophe.helary@gmail.com, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 12 17:29:22 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 1Zamjx-00038A-DZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Sep 2015 17:29:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:32840 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zamjw-000781-Ex for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Sep 2015 11:29:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55363) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zamjk-00077v-Gw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Sep 2015 11:29:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zamjj-0004TY-Lw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Sep 2015 11:29:08 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:34840) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZamjW-0004OH-9a; Sat, 12 Sep 2015 11:28:54 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ZamjV-0004pK-DF; Sat, 12 Sep 2015 11:28:53 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Fri, 11 Sep 2015 09:28:36 -0400) 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:189869 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. ]]] > Actually, the way we downcase it has problems. E.g. Go to the beginning > of this paragraph (i.e. before "Actually") and do: > C-s C-w M-c > and you end up searching for an exact (non-case-folded) match of > "actually" rather than "Actually", so it won't even match the "Actually" > from which you got it. Perhaps the case-ignore toggle should affect chars as you enter them. -- 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.