bug#13041: 24.2; diacritic-fold-search

[Stephen Berman]

On Sun, 09 Dec 2012 02:35:46 +0200 Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> wrote:

>>> i.e. "suf" doesn't match "suffer", only "suff" should match it.
>>
>> I completely disagree here.  "suf" should match "suffer".
>
> AFAIS, there are more programs that find a partial match,
> but neither of them can do the right highlighting:
> both possibilities (to highlight the whole ligature and not to highlight)
> are wrong, and highlighting a part of the ligature is impossible.

Could a ligature be highlighted in a different way (different color or
additional attribute such as underlining) to indicate a partial or
potential match?

Steve Berman