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#21277
char-fold isearch: how to disable
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Reported by: rms <at> gnu.org
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 05:05:02 UTC
Severity: minor
Found in version 25.0.50
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> > If char-fold really only affects ASCII and Unicode lookalikes, is it
> > important enough to be worth mentioning in the echo area? If not,
> > let's delete it from the echo area.
> One idea was to not display default parameters in the echo area.
> So when e.g. char-fold search is t by default then it should not
> be indicated in the echo area.
Might be good.
> > Does anyone really want to disable it?
> Like case-fold search, char-fold search could be disabled either by
> customizing the corresponding variable, or interactively with ‘M-s '’.
Yes, but does anyone really ever want to disable it?
> > On the other hand, lax whitespace search by default is a drastic
> > change. That should be listed in the echo area, and its default
> > should be nil.
> AFAIK, a drastic change was not in lax whitespace search per se, but
> only in its combination with char-fold search that we could fix now.
Is that a certainty? I now think the problem is simply in lax
whitespace search. Some evidence is that it occurs in an Emacs from a
year ago, in which char-fold search did not exist.
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