"Roland Winkler" <wink...@gnu.org> writes: > On Sat May 30 2015 Feng Shu wrote: >> This patch make `string-match' used by `bbdb-search' >> customizable. I use this feature to search Chinese contacts names with >> pinyin. this is a very useful feature for CJK users. > > ...I am surprised: what is the purpose of replacing string-match > with something else? (The emacs package chinese-pyim that you are > using seems to be documented in chinese only, which does not help > me.) >
I just use `pyim-hanzi2pinyin' function, which do such work: "你好 BBDB" -> "nihao BBDB" so, what I want to do is like this, for example: 1. I have a contact record, which name is "你好 BBDB" 2. If use `string-match', I need type "你好" to search this record, which need to use Chinese input method and not convenience. 3. if I use this custom, i just type "nihao", then the contact records will be found. just type ascii. Another toy example is that you can use "az" to match "affffggggzzkkkz", at bbdb-search's condition, this is useful. Maybe "string match" is not a good name for this feature. > I can imagine that CJK might sometimes require different solutions > than, say, western languages. Yet I am not sure whether it is the > right approach to then introduce custom variables like > bbdb-string-match-function to replace string-match in (only) certain > instances by something else. > Another approach is auto add "AKA" field with a fuction, the problem of this approach is that, many different chinese-char have same pinyin, so I need deal with many many conflites when I use this approach. > I mean: string-match is used by emacs in a zillion of places. If > for some reason this built-in function does not do what you need, > you might want to discuss at emacs-devel whether this can be > improved in a way that will benefit all emacs code. Or loading the > package chinese-pyim could effectively replace string-match. > (Yet this only works at the lisp level. There might also be > instances when string-match is called at the C level.) > > Roland The above `string-match' only meanful in `bbdb-search', meanless in other situation. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
