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: Questions about isearch Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2015 01:37:52 -0500 Message-ID: References: <83lh9lx6oi.fsf@gnu.org> <87egfdant7.fsf@gmx.us> <83h9k8vig7.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 1448606305 11995 80.91.229.3 (27 Nov 2015 06:38:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2015 06:38:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: sb@dod.no, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 27 07:38:14 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 1a2Cfe-0000Ea-5d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Nov 2015 07:38:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54964 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a2Cff-0008Qx-Ut for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Nov 2015 01:38:15 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51928) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a2CfU-0008Qr-41 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Nov 2015 01:38:05 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a2CfT-0006aC-94 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Nov 2015 01:38:04 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:51232) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a2CfJ-0006QP-4G; Fri, 27 Nov 2015 01:37:53 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1a2CfI-0000fA-Bg; Fri, 27 Nov 2015 01:37:52 -0500 In-reply-to: <83h9k8vig7.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Thu, 26 Nov 2015 18:22:48 +0200) 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:195340 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. ]]] > It's a problematic concept for Emacs, which is a multi-lingual > environment. For example, what is the "current language" of the > buffer showing this message? English. That's what I would select for it. > It cannot be US English, since it > includes characters not in that language, Of course it can be. If I were editing that text, I would not select Turkish for it. But if you want to select Turkish for it, you could do that. The user should be able to select any current language for a given buffer. > We could probably have a text property which will specify the > language, but we don't have good means to set such a property. IOW, > where that information would come from? We don't need anything that fancy for the initial feature. Just the ability to select the language for any buffer would be a great start. Indeed, it would not help you much for etc/HELLO, but so what? It can be useful for many situations, even if it can't handle really complex situations any better than now. -- 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.