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: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 15:21:13 -0500 Message-ID: References: <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> <87povqe5tr.fsf@gnus.org> <87ziuta4l4.fsf@gnus.org> <87y4adzcia.fsf@gnus.org> <83twl0k1k5.fsf@gnu.org> <83k2lvi99c.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1456518192 23566 80.91.229.3 (26 Feb 2016 20:23:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 20:23:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, lokedhs@gmail.com, larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Yuri Khan Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 26 21:23:01 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 1aZOuj-0003Ya-74 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Feb 2016 21:23:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51964 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aZOui-0002Vp-NK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Feb 2016 15:23:00 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60121) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aZOtM-0000mQ-Dk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Feb 2016 15:21:37 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aZOtL-0003rj-F5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Feb 2016 15:21:36 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:55492) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aZOt0-0003OM-4S; Fri, 26 Feb 2016 15:21:14 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aZOsz-0003Xg-4r; Fri, 26 Feb 2016 15:21:13 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Yuri Khan on Thu, 25 Feb 2016 20:57:32 +0600) 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:200695 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. ]]] > > Meanwhile, I don't think it has to be one or the other. > > It might be good to do both. > What specific user scenario do you want to solve by folding > Latin/Greek/Cyrillic confusables? If I saw an 'a' in the buffer, I'd like searching for 'a' to find it. Of course, I will search for a Latin 'a'. If the char in the buffer is a Cyrillic 'a', I want isearch to find that too. > It is when you are proof-reading text that it becomes important to > distinguish Latin and Cyrillic, to check that you don’t have a stray > Cyrillic letter within an English word, or vice-versa. If I want to check which kind of a it is, I can do that with C-x =. It would never occur to me to test "Is this really a Cyrillic a" by searching for a Latin a and seeing if that finds it. -- 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.