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Re:Emacs 25.1 released by tlikonen on Saturday September 17, 2016 @03:29PM (#12522010)
Character folding in searches is likely useful: simple letters like "a" also match "á", "à", "ä"; quote char " also matches “ and ” and so on.

  (setq search-default-mode #'char-fold-to-regexp)
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Re:Emacs 25.1 released by mablap on Saturday September 17, 2016 @06:47PM (#12522926)
Ah, that's cool, but as I often write in French and I'm trying to learn how to write proper Spanish, I appreciate the default-off.
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Re:Emacs 25.1 released by copperx on Saturday September 17, 2016 @05:50PM (#12522666)
That's awesome.
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Re:Emacs 25.1 released by wtbob on Saturday September 17, 2016 @09:34PM (#12523492)
> That's awesome.

That's emacs.

Seriously, emacs is pure distilled awesome. I honestly don't know why anyone uses anything else, or writes code for anything else.

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