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--- Begin Message ----------- Original-Nachricht -------- Datum: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 16:24:24 +0100 Von: Reuben Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An: Debian Bug Tracking System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Betreff: Bug#378470: less: Please support quote character folding in search Package: less Version: 394-2 Severity: wishlist Please support folding of quote characters. In a UTF-8 locale, man uses curly quote characters, which is nice to read, but hard to search. For example, I can't easily find "don't". I suggest a generalisation of --ignore-case: a new option like --fold-equivalent that implies --ignore-case and also allows other character equivalence classes to be equated. I presume Unicode defines such classes, but I don't know; otherwise, some simple ones could be defined, like {tick|right curly single quote}, {backtick|left curly single quote}, {double straight quote|double left quote, double right quote} (before the | I list characters that are ambiguous (treated like lower case letters) and after unambiguous (like upper case letters). The option would work like --ignore-case: if the user specifies an unambiguous character from a group, then characters are matched exactly. If this features sounds worthwhile, I'd be happy to look into preparing a patch, and if I should be discussing this with upstream instead, please feel free to point me upstream. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.16 Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages less depends on: ii debianutils 2.16.2 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii libc6 2.3.6-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libncurses5 5.5-2 Shared libraries for terminal hand less recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- Echte DSL-Flatrate dauerhaft für 0,- Euro*! "Feel free" mit GMX DSL! http://www.gmx.net/de/go/dsl
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