From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Cc: 56401@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#56401: "Case folding" should be called "ignore case"
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2022 18:59:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r12zze9k.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkmkWtOjsQ6EdpYtuK5U=cTHNaiDGQSB2Aa_0q91QnbqiVA@mail.gmail.com> (Stefan Kangas's message of "Tue, 5 Jul 2022 09:04:25 -0700")
Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:
> The "case fold" terminology is too technical and not very user-friendly.
> In other software, in most user-facing contexts, it is called "ignore
> case".
>
> Please consider renaming all variables, commands, and documentation to
> refer to "ignore case" instead of "case folding".
I agree that "ignore case" would be better, but it somehow seems like
most people don't have much problem with the "case folding" terminology?
In any case, I think renaming all the functions and variables here would
not be worth the churn -- there's quite a lot of them.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-07-05 16:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-07-05 16:04 bug#56401: "Case folding" should be called "ignore case" Stefan Kangas
2022-07-05 16:59 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2022-07-05 17:11 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-07-05 17:17 ` Visuwesh
2022-07-05 17:26 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-07-06 4:37 ` Phil Sainty
2022-07-06 10:40 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-07-06 9:36 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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