(isearch-fold-groups isearch-groups-alist): New variables.

When `isearch-fold-groups' is non-nil `isearch-groups-alist'
determines which characters are replaced with regexps during isearch.

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/isearch.el b/lisp/isearch.el
index 99ca73f9f54..86850dbd6cc 100644
--- a/lisp/isearch.el
+++ b/lisp/isearch.el
@@ -272,6 +272,23 @@ Default value, nil, means edit the string instead."
   :version "23.1"
   :group 'isearch)
 
+(defcustom isearch-fold-groups t
+  "Whether regular isearch should do group folding.
+This means some characters will match entire groups of charactes,
+such as \" matching ”, for instance."
+  :type 'boolean
+  :group 'isearch
+  :version "25.1")
+
+(defvar isearch-groups-alist
+  ;; FIXME: Add all the latin accented letters like Ã.
+  '((?\" . "[\"＂“””„⹂〞‟‟❞❝❠“„〝〟🙷🙶🙸❮❯«»‹›󠀢]")
+    (?' . "[`'❟❛❜‘’’‚‛‛‚‘󠀢❮❯«»‹›]")
+    ;; `isearch-fold-groups' doesn't interact with
+    ;; `isearch-lax-whitespace' yet.  So we need to add this here.
+    (?\s . "[ 	\r\n]+"))
+  "Alist of groups to use when `isearch-fold-groups' is non-nil.")
+
 (defcustom isearch-lazy-highlight t
   "Controls the lazy-highlighting during incremental search.
 When non-nil, all text in the buffer matching the current search