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 01:38:32 -0500 Message-ID: References: <83lh9lx6oi.fsf@gnu.org> <87egfdant7.fsf@gmx.us> <83h9k8vig7.fsf@gnu.org> <83oaegtqxq.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 1448606340 12522 80.91.229.3 (27 Nov 2015 06:39:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2015 06:39:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: per@starback.se, 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 07:38:49 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 1a2CgC-0001Td-5q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Nov 2015 07:38:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54966 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a2CgE-0000gv-N3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Nov 2015 01:38:50 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53041) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a2Cg1-0000fp-AK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Nov 2015 01:38:38 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a2Cg0-0007Ld-B8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Nov 2015 01:38:37 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:51290) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a2Cfx-0007G3-IM; Fri, 27 Nov 2015 01:38:33 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1a2Cfw-0000uY-Om; Fri, 27 Nov 2015 01:38:32 -0500 In-reply-to: <83oaegtqxq.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Thu, 26 Nov 2015 23:02:25 +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:195341 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. ]]] > So you will sort Turkish words in an otherwise English text according > to English rules? And spell-check them using an English dictionary? > I don't think so. You seem to be trying to design an ultimate, ideal current language facility. We might want to get there eventually, but I think we should start with something simple. After all, most buffers have only one language in them. If there are a few words in another language, the user probably won't find it hard to deal with the fact that Emacs does not know they are in another language. Having a selectable language for the whole buffer is going to be better than the current situation where you can't select it. If you have a table in Turkish in the middle of a English document, and you want to sort the table, you can switch the buffer to Turkish, sort, and switch back to English. -- 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.