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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Message #224 received at 13041 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
Cc: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>, 13041 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, perin <at> panix.com,
	perin <at> acm.org
Subject: Re: bug#13041: 24.2; diacritic-fold-search
Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2012 10:45:07 -0500

>>> i.e. "suf" doesn't match "suffer", only "suff" should match it.
>> I completely disagree here.  "suf" should match "suffer".
> AFAIS, there are more programs that find a partial match,
> but neither of them can do the right highlighting:
> both possibilities (to highlight the whole ligature and not to highlight)
> are wrong, and highlighting a part of the ligature is impossible.

One step at a time: first, let's make sure we can match it.  Then we'll
worry about what the match-boundaries should be and how to display it
(when we get to this point, we can even consider displaying suffer as
suffer temporarily, just like we do when point is in the middle of
a composition).


        Stefan
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