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Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding
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Mark Oteiza |
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Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding |
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Thu, 18 Feb 2016 13:18:12 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> From: Mark Oteiza <address@hidden>
>> Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 17:53:27 -0500
>>
>> I didn't know what character folding was before this was implemented in
>> Emacs, and AFAICT the only other thing I happen to have installed that
>> does this is Chromium.
>
> We don't have to always be the Nth application on the block to
> implement something useful. When Emacs was first introduced, it
> pioneered many features that nowadays are taken for granted. There's
> no reason why this trend should stop, IMO.
If Emacs does become the first application to implement char-folding and
provide a means to overcome the language issues associated with the
current implementation, that will be impressive.
>> It appears that char-folding's dependence on elisp regex is a
>> crutch.
>
> You (or anyone else) are welcome to work on re-implementing this in
> search.c similarly to case-folding we already have there. The current
> implementation was accepted because the feature was deemed important,
> and no one stepped forward to do it in C.
Good to know that patches are welcome.
>> Long PS: I think the news items in "** Search and Replace" need to be
>> clearer. In particular:
>>
>> - *** New user option ... should perhaps mention character-fold-to-regexp if
>> that ends up being the default
>
> Done.
>
>> - *** `isearch' and ... should mention how to disable/enable character
>> folding for isearch, whatever the default ends up being
>
> I added that.
>
>> - *** New function ... should mention that it is to be added to
>> `search-default-regexp-mode'
>
> The first item above already does (after the changes you proposed
> above), so this sounds redundant.
Indeed, thanks
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, (continued)
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Marcin Borkowski, 2016/02/17
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Elias Mårtenson, 2016/02/18
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/18
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Elias Mårtenson, 2016/02/19
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Achim Gratz, 2016/02/19
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Elias Mårtenson, 2016/02/20
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Achim Gratz, 2016/02/20
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Marcin Borkowski, 2016/02/19
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Richard Stallman, 2016/02/20
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/18
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding,
Mark Oteiza <=
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/18
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Richard Stallman, 2016/02/18
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/18
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Marcin Borkowski, 2016/02/13
- Content navigation (was: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding), Óscar Fuentes, 2016/02/13
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Marcin Borkowski, 2016/02/13
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/13
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Marcin Borkowski, 2016/02/13
Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Adrian . B . Robert, 2016/02/10
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