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Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs.
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Yuri Khan |
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Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs. |
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Wed, 17 Jun 2015 15:02:13 +0600 |
On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 2:40 PM, Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > Can we make " match fancy quotes in isearch?
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> Indeed. With such a change to isearch, Emacs takes one more step from
> being a sharp tool to being a blunt instrument.
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> Don't forget that Emacs is used for things other than developing Elisp
> programs. Such an identification of disparate characters is not going
> to be universally welcome, and will cause confusion.
Emacs already has a facility for ignoring distinctions between
disparate characters. It’s called case-insensitive search, and is
governed by a customizable global option and a toggleable local option
in isearch.
Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Eli Zaretskii, 2015/06/15
Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Paul Nathan, 2015/06/20