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Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding |
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Fri, 26 Feb 2016 15:21:13 -0500 |
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> > Meanwhile, I don't think it has to be one or the other.
> > It might be good to do both.
> What specific user scenario do you want to solve by folding
> Latin/Greek/Cyrillic confusables?
If I saw an 'a' in the buffer, I'd like searching for 'a' to find it.
Of course, I will search for a Latin 'a'. If the char in the buffer
is a Cyrillic 'a', I want isearch to find that too.
> It is when you are proof-reading text that it becomes important to
> distinguish Latin and Cyrillic, to check that you don’t have a stray
> Cyrillic letter within an English word, or vice-versa.
If I want to check which kind of a it is, I can do that with C-x =.
It would never occur to me to test "Is this really a Cyrillic a"
by searching for a Latin a and seeing if that finds it.
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- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, (continued)
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Richard Stallman, 2016/02/22
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- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Richard Stallman, 2016/02/23
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/23
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Yuri Khan, 2016/02/23
- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Richard Stallman, 2016/02/25
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- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Richard Stallman, 2016/02/27
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- Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/27
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