On Friday, May 31, 2013 1:56:56 PM UTC+3, Mike Williams wrote: > On 31/05/2013 11:23, Ron Aaron wrote: > > "ff" is a ligature, not a composed character. Although it has a decomposed > form it cannot be recomposed with Unicode composing rules (f is not a > composing character) There are others including "ffi" - should a search for > "fi" match the second and third characters?
OK, fair enough: it's a ligature. The original example I gave, of "aleph" + "vowel patah" is a precomposed character. In either case, I think searching for a component thereof should work. Certainly in the original case, it is reasonable to expect searching for an "aleph" to match. I would go as far as to say that "fi" should match "ffi". That is, the "ffi" character should be decomposed for search purposes to "f" "f" "i". > The question is do you want a search on the unicode codepoints (e.g. a > search on "ffi") or do you want a search on the semantic Unicode character > sequence (i.e. "ffi")? As I said, I think that if one searches for "ffi" literally, it should be found (and should not match "ffi"). There should also be an option to control the behavior. > Wouldn't this be "ignoreligatures" for the case above? In addition to > any "ignoreprecomposed". I don't really care much what it's called, but I'm sure Bram will let us know soon what he thinks about all this. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
