* lisp/char-fold.el (char-fold-to-regexp): Implement arg LAX (bug#36398).

* test/lisp/char-fold-tests.el (char-fold--test-multi-lax): New test.

1 files changed, 37 insertions, 27 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/char-fold.el b/lisp/char-fold.el
index 7223ecf738c..9d3ea17b413 100644
--- a/lisp/char-fold.el
+++ b/lisp/char-fold.el
@@ -148,12 +148,18 @@ Exceptionally for the space character (32), ALIST is ignored.")
                  (make-list n (or (aref char-fold-table ?\s) " ")))))
 
 ;;;###autoload
-(defun char-fold-to-regexp (string &optional _lax from)
+(defun char-fold-to-regexp (string &optional lax from)
   "Return a regexp matching anything that char-folds into STRING.
 Any character in STRING that has an entry in
 `char-fold-table' is replaced with that entry (which is a
 regexp) and other characters are `regexp-quote'd.
 
+When LAX is non-nil, then the final character also matches ligatures
+partially, for instance, the search string \"f\" will match \"fi\",
+so when typing the search string in isearch while the cursor is on
+a ligature, the search won't try to immediately advance to the next
+complete match, but will stay on the partially matched ligature.
+
 If the resulting regexp would be too long for Emacs to handle,
 just return the result of calling `regexp-quote' on STRING.
 
@@ -183,36 +189,40 @@ from which to start."
                  ;; Long string.  The regexp would probably be too long.
                  (alist (unless (> end 50)
                           (aref multi-char-table c))))
-             (push (let ((matched-entries nil)
-                         (max-length 0))
-                     (dolist (entry alist)
-                       (let* ((suffix (car entry))
-                              (len-suf (length suffix)))
-                         (when (eq (compare-strings suffix 0 nil
-                                                    string (1+ i) (+ i 1 len-suf)
-                                                    nil)
-                                   t)
-                           (push (cons len-suf (cdr entry)) matched-entries)
-                           (setq max-length (max max-length len-suf)))))
-                     ;; If no suffixes matched, just go on.
-                     (if (not matched-entries)
-                         regexp
+             (push (if (and lax alist (= (1+ i) end))
+                       (concat "\\(?:" regexp "\\|"
+                               (mapconcat (lambda (entry)
+                                            (cdr entry)) alist "\\|") "\\)")
+                     (let ((matched-entries nil)
+                           (max-length 0))
+                       (dolist (entry alist)
+                         (let* ((suffix (car entry))
+                                (len-suf (length suffix)))
+                           (when (eq (compare-strings suffix 0 nil
+                                                      string (1+ i) (+ i 1 len-suf)
+                                                      nil)
+                                     t)
+                             (push (cons len-suf (cdr entry)) matched-entries)
+                             (setq max-length (max max-length len-suf)))))
+                       ;; If no suffixes matched, just go on.
+                       (if (not matched-entries)
+                           regexp
 ;;; If N suffixes match, we "branch" out into N+1 executions for the
 ;;; length of the longest match.  This means "fix" will match "fix" but
 ;;; not "fⅸ", but it's necessary to keep the regexp size from scaling
 ;;; exponentially.  See https://lists.gnu.org/r/emacs-devel/2015-11/msg02562.html
-                       (let ((subs (substring string (1+ i) (+ i 1 max-length))))
-                         ;; `i' is still going to inc by 1 below.
-                         (setq i (+ i max-length))
-                         (concat
-                          "\\(?:"
-                          (mapconcat (lambda (entry)
-                                       (let ((length (car entry))
-                                             (suffix-regexp (cdr entry)))
-                                         (concat suffix-regexp
-                                                 (char-fold-to-regexp subs nil length))))
-                                     `((0 . ,regexp) . ,matched-entries) "\\|")
-                          "\\)"))))
+                         (let ((subs (substring string (1+ i) (+ i 1 max-length))))
+                           ;; `i' is still going to inc by 1 below.
+                           (setq i (+ i max-length))
+                           (concat
+                            "\\(?:"
+                            (mapconcat (lambda (entry)
+                                         (let ((length (car entry))
+                                               (suffix-regexp (cdr entry)))
+                                           (concat suffix-regexp
+                                                   (char-fold-to-regexp subs nil length))))
+                                       `((0 . ,regexp) . ,matched-entries) "\\|")
+                            "\\)")))))
                    out))))
       (setq i (1+ i)))
     (when (> spaces 0)