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tlikonen on Sept 17, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Emacs 25.1 released

Character folding in searches is likely useful: simple letters like "a" also match "á", "à", "ä"; quote char " also matches “ and ” and so on.

  (setq search-default-mode #'char-fold-to-regexp)

mablap on Sept 17, 2016 | [–]

Ah, that's cool, but as I often write in French and I'm trying to learn how to write proper Spanish, I appreciate the default-off.

copperx on Sept 17, 2016 | [–]

That's awesome.

wtbob on Sept 18, 2016 | [–]

> That's awesome.

That's emacs.

Seriously, emacs is pure distilled awesome. I honestly don't know why anyone uses anything else, or writes code for anything else.

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