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Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs.
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Stephen J. Turnbull |
Subject: |
Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs. |
Date: |
Fri, 19 Jun 2015 13:24:53 +0900 |
Steinar Bang writes:
> My personal preference would be to make "å" match "å" (and maybe "Å" for
> case insensitive search).
In general that would be true, and the normal case. However, here's a
case where you might want it to match "a", too. You are pretty sure
you saw a quote of a Norwegian text or a Norwegian name in an
otherwise English document, and want to find it. But you forgot the
spelling was not accurate: the word you're sure is in the quote
contains "å", but was spelled with "a" (by a non-Norwegian typist)
instead.
Rarely of use, I agree.
I think the more normal case (and the original motivation for this,
also pointed out by Marcin) would be an English-speaker who would find
it difficult to type "å", and so searches for the Norwegian text using
the word spelling with "a" (she doesn't know about "aa").
Steve
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., (continued)
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Steinar Bang, 2015/06/18
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Eli Zaretskii, 2015/06/18
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Steinar Bang, 2015/06/18
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Marcin Borkowski, 2015/06/18
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Steinar Bang, 2015/06/18
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Steinar Bang, 2015/06/18
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Eli Zaretskii, 2015/06/18
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Steinar Bang, 2015/06/18
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs.,
Stephen J. Turnbull <=
- RE: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Stephen J. Turnbull, 2015/06/18
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Robert Pluim, 2015/06/17
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Richard Stallman, 2015/06/18
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Robert Pluim, 2015/06/18
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Paul Eggert, 2015/06/18
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Eli Zaretskii, 2015/06/18
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Richard Stallman, 2015/06/19
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Paul Eggert, 2015/06/20
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Richard Stallman, 2015/06/20
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Paul Eggert, 2015/06/20