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Re: [PATCH] better isearch support for complex input methods
From: |
Karl Fogel |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] better isearch support for complex input methods |
Date: |
03 Apr 2001 13:48:34 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.7 |
"Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/address@hidden> writes:
> > Currently, if one uses C-w in isearch in Chinese text, it grabs to the
> > next punctuation mark or end of line. This is usually not what the
> > user wanted -- it's much more likely that they want to grab one
> > Chinese character at a time.
>
> This suggests that instead of introducing a new binding C-o we should
> just change C-w so that it yanks in either one word or one char
> depending on the alphabet.
I would prefer that too, but I'm not sure how to implement it.
Remember, the buffer may contain mixed-language text. We still want
C-w to work right for multicharacter words. For example, imagine this
text, where "X", "Y", and "Z" are Chinese characters:
X Y is my name, and Z is my game
If point is on X, someone might want to search the next occurrence of
"X Y is my name". *Ideally*, they would type
C-s C-w C-w C-w C-w C-w C-s
However, this can only work if C-w knows to behave differently when
looking at a multibyte Chinese character than when looking at some
other kind of text. And of course, it can't just be for Chinese:
Emacs would have to recognize a general classification of "characters
that are themselves words" in various lanuages. Can it do this?
I agree it would be a wonderfully usable solution, better than the C-o
solution. I'm not sure how to implement it, though.
Any ideas?
[In the meantime, C-o is a vast improvement over what we have now, and
it is of general use, even in non-multibyte-char buffers -- I've
wanted to pull one char at a time into my search string before,
without having to find the chars on my keyboard.]
-Karl
- [PATCH] better isearch support for complex input methods, Karl Fogel, 2001/04/02
- Re: [PATCH] better isearch support for complex input methods, Stefan Monnier, 2001/04/03
- Re: [PATCH] better isearch support for complex input methods,
Karl Fogel <=
- Re: [PATCH] better isearch support for complex input methods, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/04/03
- Re: [PATCH] better isearch support for complex input methods, Stefan Monnier, 2001/04/03
- Re: [PATCH] better isearch support for complex input methods, Karl Fogel, 2001/04/04
- Re: [PATCH] better isearch support for complex input methods, Dave Love, 2001/04/22
- Re: [PATCH] better isearch support for complex input methods, Karl Fogel, 2001/04/23
- Re: [PATCH] better isearch support for complex input methods, Miles Bader, 2001/04/24
- Re: [PATCH] better isearch support for complex input methods, Andreas Schwab, 2001/04/25
- Re: [PATCH] better isearch support for complex input methods, Miles Bader, 2001/04/25
- Re: [PATCH] better isearch support for complex input methods, Stefan Monnier, 2001/04/25
- Re: [PATCH] better isearch support for complex input methods, Karl Fogel, 2001/04/25