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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 56401@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#56401: "Case folding" should be called "ignore case"
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2022 19:11:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmkaoRy+LzAPJFfo77-P9Q1rRxZ78ubMWfO64-4AO1Wv_w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r12zze9k.fsf@gnus.org>

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> 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?

I had to look up the exact meaning today, FWIW.

(I confused myself on whether or not "case folding" is the same as
"ignore case" or its inverse.)





  reply	other threads:[~2022-07-05 17:11 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
2022-07-05 17:11   ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
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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