Re: lax matching is not a great default behavior

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Mark Oteiza <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2015 13:49:46 -0500
> 
> I think the performance hit of char-folding is a good reason to disable
> it. (Perhaps it's much worse for me since this emacs is not optimized.)

Then turn it off in your sessions.  That's just the default, you don't
have to suffer if you don't like/need it.  (The release version is not
supposed to be unoptimized on end-users' machines, btw.)

> P.S. Regardless of the default, I think the variable
> `search-default-regexp-mode' (or whatever variable ends up controlling
> the behaviour) should be mentioned in NEWS.

It already is, has been there for quite some time.  But thanks for the
reminder anyway.