From: Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 56401@debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Subject: bug#56401: "Case folding" should be called "ignore case"
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2022 16:37:54 +1200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e4b27347d9bdc8ac2c4e9acce23c946c@webmail.orcon.net.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r12zze9k.fsf@gnus.org>
On 2022-07-06 04:59, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> 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".
"Ignore case" is in fact the precise term used in the "Default search
options" menu, so we do already cater to newcomers in that way.
"Case" isn't the only thing that can be "folded" though, and I don't
think "ignore" is always a good verb. I don't think `replace-char-fold'
should be `replace-char-ignore'.
OTOH we do already have more than one term for this, unfortunately.
"lax-whitespace" should probably use the "fold" terminology too?
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.
-Phil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-07-06 4:37 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 [this message]
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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