> Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2021 21:50:08 -0500 > From: Jacob Bachmeyer <[email protected]> > CC: Alan Mackenzie <[email protected]>, [email protected] > > From my viewpoint, it seems that Alan wants some kind of equivalence > table, such that ASCII backtick and single quote will match the Unicode > curly quotes when typed into an I-search. This might be a generally > useful feature, particularly if it is implemented as a variable that can > be made mode-local or buffer-local, with a global default customizable > by the user, as it would enable searching for characters not actually on > the user's keyboard.
Emacs already has such a feature, see "Lax Search" in the Emacs manual. I suggested to Alan in private email to try using that for his needs (it works for me, FWIW).
