believe, was concerned
that typing Chinese names can be cumbersome so that he wanted an
ascii-based shortcut.
Yes, This is my main focus...
Nearly every contacts manager in China have this feature.--
Perhaps there should be a standard string-match-loose which is used for
potentially-approximate matches like this and which has a double handful of
configuration options and tweaks that can be fiddled with by prefixes in the
search string.
In my opinion, i think it is a kind of
On Mon Jun 1 2015 Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote:
To put a slightly different perspective on this, I have a sizable
bbdb file, and sometimes I can't find someone because I'm spelling
their name wrong. Maybe Steven vs Stephen. The classic way to deal
with this is to do a SOUNDEX search, or one of
On Tue Jun 2 2015 Roland Winkler wrote:
Any approximate search will give you yet more matches than what you
get otherwise. So it might not always simplify life if you have a
large BBDB file.
The examples at the bottom of lisp/soundex.el illustrate this quite
well.
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
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
