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: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 12:43:26 -0500 Message-ID: References: <83pow26svf.fsf@gnu.org> <87a8n5srbp.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83d1s17npz.fsf@gnu.org> <87oablfpn3.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <834mdd6llx.fsf@gnu.org> <7fbb8bc7-9a97-4bad-a103-a6690a35241d@default> <834mdc5w6o.fsf@gnu.org> <838u2hu6aq.fsf@gnu.org> <871t899tde.fsf@gnus.org> <83y4ahru04.fsf@gnu.org> <83fuwproyf.fsf@gnu.org> <837fi0sz29.fsf@gnu.org> <83egc8qzjh.fsf@gnu.org> <87egc7evu3.fsf@gnus.org> <83io1jpt4u.fsf@gnu.org> <87povqhj25.fsf@gnus.org> <83povqm3dw.fsf@gnu.org> <83io1im0zq.fsf@gnu.org> <83ziusk1yx.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 1456249451 7786 80.91.229.3 (23 Feb 2016 17:44:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 17:44:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: larsi@gnus.org, lokedhs@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 23 18:44:05 2016 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 1aYH0G-0008Mc-66 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2016 18:44:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58830 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aYH0F-00056A-Mz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2016 12:44:03 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42225) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aYGzs-00052l-5d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2016 12:43:41 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aYGzp-0000UR-8D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2016 12:43:40 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:45481) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aYGzf-0000Bt-Vl; Tue, 23 Feb 2016 12:43:28 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aYGze-000655-RM; Tue, 23 Feb 2016 12:43:27 -0500 In-reply-to: <83ziusk1yx.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Mon, 22 Feb 2016 20:57:10 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] 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:200551 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. ]]] > > Some plausible meanings are > > > > * Find that one and only that one. > > * Treat it the same as specifying the base letter. > > > > There should be a user option to choose between those two (and maybe > > some other behaviors for a non-base letter in the search string). > We already have both options, and in particular, if a non-base letter > appears explicitly in the search string, it will be searched > literally, similarly to what we do with case-insensitive search. Some users want that. Some, it appears, want searching for any letter in the group to find any letter in the group. So I am suggesting we offer both behaviors. -- 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.