From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz>
Cc: 56401@debbugs.gnu.org, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: bug#56401: "Case folding" should be called "ignore case"
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2022 12:40:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmmmWpEK_EUYGUNqyJq3+h6_EH+7zpk4CR2pw77s_Qs-zw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e4b27347d9bdc8ac2c4e9acce23c946c@webmail.orcon.net.nz>
Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz> writes:
> I agree that "fold" isn't intuitive to newcomers, but I also think
> it's good to try to limit the number of different terms used to
> express a concept.
Agreed, though I would add that it isn't intuitive to old users either
(case in point: me). So let's start moving in the right direction.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-07-06 10:40 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
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 [this message]
2022-07-06 9:36 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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