From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Character group folding in searches Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2015 13:03:12 -0500 Message-ID: References: <83zj8rcdpi.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1423245847 20711 80.91.229.3 (6 Feb 2015 18:04:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2015 18:04:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bruce.connor.am@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 06 19:04:06 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 1YJnG5-00018L-NF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Feb 2015 19:04:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50003 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YJnG4-00069X-SA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Feb 2015 13:04:00 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38132) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YJnFr-000697-DN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Feb 2015 13:03:48 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YJnFq-0005s3-Mi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Feb 2015 13:03:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mercure.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.24.67]:49626) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YJnFn-0005rM-JG; Fri, 06 Feb 2015 13:03:43 -0500 Original-Received: from hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.50]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78A9785EAD; Fri, 6 Feb 2015 13:03:42 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from lechon.iro.umontreal.ca (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3F671E5B8B; Fri, 6 Feb 2015 13:03:12 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by lechon.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id C90E0B4102; Fri, 6 Feb 2015 13:03:12 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <83zj8rcdpi.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 06 Feb 2015 16:32:57 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-2.82, requis 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -2.82, MC_TSTLAST 0.00) X-DIRO-MailScanner-From: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 132.204.24.67 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:182549 Archived-At: > subset of folding. A character whose folding is not a single > character should map to a vector or a string of characters (not sure > which one is best, we should choose the one that lends itself to the > most efficient use). So "folding" can turn a single char into a sequence of chars? Why not do it the other way? Stefan