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Re: Character group folding in searches


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Character group folding in searches
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 17:45:09 +0200

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2015 21:15:21 -0500
> 
> > Why should we?  "->" could be equivalent to ?→, but I see no reason to
> > make it equivalent to "=>".
> 
> The me the question goes the other way: how can you be sure noone will
> ever need/want equivalence classes which include things like "->" and
> "=>" at the same time?

When they do, we will indeed want your DFAs ;-)

Seriously, though: the real question here is whether this limitation
is serious enough to render the entire idea useless.  I don't think
so, I think the use-case you envision is rare at best.

> But I don't have any immediate plans to work on this, no.

Damn!




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