From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#12988: [PATCH] RE: bug#12988: isearch fails to persistently indicate case sensitivity Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 17:18:24 -0800 Message-ID: <94CE113EBBE742F68D103EE3FC4E6541@us.oracle.com> References: <1353809123.37107.YahooMailClassic@web141102.mail.bf1.yahoo.com><87ip8u6m77.fsf@mail.jurta.org><0DE2FE5504D24DB884020513B403F9C4@us.oracle.com><871ufdiaup.fsf@mail.jurta.org><4EF04423864F4A009C7B1CFAE5C53AD5@us.oracle.com> <87ehjc3q1j.fsf@mail.jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1354238353 19487 80.91.229.3 (30 Nov 2012 01:19:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 01:19:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 'Kelly Dean' , 12988@debbugs.gnu.org To: "'Juri Linkov'" Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 30 02:19:24 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TeFG6-0002mc-KJ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Fri, 30 Nov 2012 01:18:27 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt116.oracle.com (abhmt116.oracle.com [141.146.116.68]) by acsmt358.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id qAU1IQjt004576; Thu, 29 Nov 2012 19:18:26 -0600 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/130.35.178.8) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Thu, 29 Nov 2012 17:18:26 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 In-Reply-To: <87ehjc3q1j.fsf@mail.jurta.org> Thread-Index: Ac3OkyWatIHqqUckSLSqVWwkQmyQawAA9F5Q X-Source-IP: ucsinet22.oracle.com [156.151.31.94] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:67622 Archived-At: > > Isearch - case sensitive, strict whitespace > > ISEARCH - case insensitive, strict whitespace > > I search - case sensitive, lax whitespace > > I SEARCH - case insensitive, lax whitespace > > ISEARCH is too loud. All-caps text usually indicates SHOUTING ;-) > > What do you think about altering only the capital letter: > `Isearch' vs `isearch'. I disagree, but please do whatever you like. I disagree because the change from one to the other is MUCH clearer using uppercase: There is far more visual difference between Isearch and ISEARCH than between Isearch and isearch. I agree that ALL CAPS IN TEXT IS LIKE SHOUTING. This is not a paragraph, however, but a short symbol. And here we actually WANT to draw attention to the change/difference (IMHO). I, at lest, *want* the change to be easily to notice. [FWIW, all caps is also a programming idiom as the way case-insensitive testing is typically done (convert everything to uppercase, then test). (Could equally be lowercase, I guess, but uppercase seems to be what is used.) So at least some (esp. old perhaps) programmers associate UPPERCASE with case-insensitivity (and even with old, uppercase-only languages and keyboards).] But I have no objection to all lowercase instead of all uppercase. I have no objection to anything else you might choose. I have no objection to: isearch - case-insensitive Isearch - case-sensitive I search - and lax whitespace I*search - and regexp I* search - and lax ws and regexp ... or whatever.