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authorEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2022-07-25 14:49:23 +0300
committerEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2022-07-25 14:49:23 +0300
commita866674b2ab24e349b8132cff1cda4a971881d56 (patch)
treee838e4d41a13f9b89d4e4a4253594045627adf16
parentba70d0f77c52d471bceb2ad2cc7bc172db348abb (diff)
downloademacs-a866674b2ab24e349b8132cff1cda4a971881d56.tar.gz
Fix inaccuracies in "lax search" documentation
* doc/emacs/search.texi (Lax Search): Update the examples of character folding in search. (Bug#56747)
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/doc/emacs/search.texi b/doc/emacs/search.texi
index 8b799f093b2..269ea71aa8f 100644
--- a/doc/emacs/search.texi
+++ b/doc/emacs/search.texi
@@ -1413,16 +1413,18 @@ of its accented cousins like @code{@"a} and @code{@'a}, i.e., the
match disregards the diacritics that distinguish these
variants. In addition, @code{a} matches other characters that
resemble it, or have it as part of their graphical representation,
-such as U+249C @sc{parenthesized latin small letter a} and U+2100
-@sc{account of} (which looks like a small @code{a} over @code{c}).
+such as U+00AA @sc{feminine ordinal indicator} and U+24D0
+@sc{circled latin small letter a} (which looks like a small @code{a}
+inside a circle).
Similarly, the @acronym{ASCII} double-quote character @code{"} matches
all the other variants of double quotes defined by the Unicode
standard. Finally, character folding can make a sequence of one or
more characters match another sequence of a different length: for
example, the sequence of two characters @code{ff} matches U+FB00
-@sc{latin small ligature ff}. Character sequences that are not identical,
-but match under character folding are known as @dfn{equivalent
-character sequences}.
+@sc{latin small ligature ff} and the sequence @code{(a)} matches
+U+249C @sc{parenthesized latin small letter a}. Character sequences
+that are not identical, but match under character folding are known as
+@dfn{equivalent character sequences}.
@kindex M-s ' @r{(Incremental Search)}
@findex isearch-toggle-char-fold