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isearch-lax-whitespace should be customizable variable

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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 20351 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>,
 Ken T Takusagawa <kenta <at> mit.edu>, Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Subject: Re: bug#20351: isearch-lax-whitespace should be customizable variable
Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2015 10:00:01 +0200

Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am <at> gmail.com> writes:

> On Jul 4, 2015 11:24 PM, "Stefan Monnier" <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>>
>> > What do you think about using the shorter name ‘char-fold-search’?
>>
>> FWIW, I find this name rather devoid of meaning.
>> What's the idea behind it?
>
> It was being called character group folding at first. Somebody suggested
> just character-folding, but I don't recall who.
>
> Neither sound terribly expressive to me, but I can't think of anything
> better.

The technical term is "equivalence classes".  Perhaps it can be folded
into the name.

Andreas.

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