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Re: lax matching is not a great default behavior
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: lax matching is not a great default behavior |
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Sat, 28 Nov 2015 09:29:27 +0100 |
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Drew Adams <address@hidden> writes:
> I realize that this would change the longstanding practice
> of having letter-case folding be default. I think that
> choice made sense back when most programming languages and
> OS's did not have a letter-case difference. But I don't
> think it is the best choice for the default behavior now.
Case folding makes a lot of sense when searching in plain text, as is
the case in this sentence when searching for "case".
Andreas.
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