GNU bug report logs - #13041
24.2; diacritic-fold-search

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: perin <at> acm.org

Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 18:31:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 24.2

Fixed in version 25.1

Done: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: "'Juri Linkov'" <juri <at> jurta.org>, "'martin rudalics'" <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
Cc: perin <at> acm.org, 13041 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, perin <at> panix.com
Subject: bug#13041: 24.2; diacritic-fold-search
Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2012 16:04:38 -0800

> > Typing "suf" as search string would go to "suffer".  Adding 
> > an "f" to the search string now would go back to "su?er" (or not).
>
> Going back looks like backtracking in the regexp search.
> 
> OTOH, instead of using an approach of matching only a full match
> like in Chromium, we could do like GEdit and OpenOffice that
> match the whole ligature character in a partial match
> (i.e. to match "?" when the search string is just "f").

Seems to me that the starting point should be the Unicode Regexp spec, which
outlines the behavior of level 1 and level 2 searches.  Emacs Dev can choose
what it wants to do, of course, but that is a good place to start, I think.
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