From facb5e20ce186e47506860bde982e35020fedce5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John Wiegley Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 11:42:06 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Update Emacs manual section related to character folding * search.texi: Character folding is not on by default. --- doc/emacs/search.texi | 21 ++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/emacs/search.texi b/doc/emacs/search.texi index 10c1f73b331..459e8446937 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/search.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/search.texi @@ -1265,14 +1265,14 @@ character sequences}. @kindex M-s ' @r{(Incremental Search)} @findex isearch-toggle-character-fold - Generally, search commands in Emacs by default perform character -folding, thus matching equivalent character sequences. You can -disable this behavior by customizing the variable -@code{search-default-mode} to @code{nil}. @xref{Search -Customizations}. Within an incremental search, typing @kbd{M-s '} -(@code{isearch-toggle-character-fold}) toggles character folding, but -only for that search. (Replace commands have a different default, -controlled by a separate option; see @ref{Replacement and Lax + Generally, search commands in Emacs do not by default perform +character folding in order to match equivalent character sequences. +You can enable this behavior by customizing the variable +@code{search-default-mode} to @code{character-fold-to-regexp}. +@xref{Search Customizations}. Within an incremental search, typing +@kbd{M-s '} (@code{isearch-toggle-character-fold}) toggles character +folding, but only for that search. (Replace commands have a different +default, controlled by a separate option; see @ref{Replacement and Lax Matches}.) Like with case folding, typing an explicit variant of a character, @@ -1806,9 +1806,8 @@ do literal searches without character folding, but with case folding and lax-whitespace matches as determined by @code{case-fold-search} and @code{search-whitespace-regexp}, respectively (@pxref{Lax Search}). If the value is @code{t}, incremental search defaults to -regexp searches. The default value specifies a function that causes -the default search mode to perform character folding in addition to -case folding and lax-whitespace matching. +regexp searches. The default value specifies a function that only +performs case folding and lax-whitespace matching. @vindex search-highlight The current match of an on-going incremental search is highlighted -- 2.39.2