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Re: Improve the docstring of case-fold-search
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Improve the docstring of case-fold-search |
Date: |
Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:27:48 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.94 (gnu/linux) |
>> The case-fold-search variable is pretty low-level and applies to
>> functions like re-search-forward. Maybe it shouldn't be customizable to
>> avoid such confusion.
> As a first step toward this,
I don't see why you'd need steps for this.
> the attached patch creates an option for
> `isearch-case-fold-search'. The possible values for this option are:
> t : isearch ignores case
> nil : isearch does not ignore case
> 'yes : isearch ignores mixed case
> 'case-fold-search : isearch uses the local case-fold-search
> Is it okay to apply this?
I don't understand what use cases we're trying to address here.
Stefan