Re: char equivalence classes in search - why not symmetric?

[Richard Stallman]

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  > > No, another difference would be that NONE of the other options
  > > is possible with one character -- all would require a toggle command
  > > that people may not remember.  (I don't.)

  > NONE of what other options?

Currently you can type a single character and do any of these things:

* Search for A with or without any accent.

* Search for Á only.

* Search for À only.

* Search for  only.

* Search for Ä only.

and likewise for each accented variant of A that exists in Unicode.

With your change, all of those characters would do the same thing:
search for A with or without any accent.

So there would be only one thing you can do in regard to searching for As,
without using some sort of toggling command.


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