From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: info-lookup-symbol index case sensitivity
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 20:13:14 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021207011314.GA17432@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877kemsm0o.fsf@zip.com.au>
On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 10:36:23AM +1000, Kevin Ryde wrote:
> > It is a good thing for index search to ignore case. That should make
> > it far easier to use, especially for beginners. As for occasional
> > conflicts, that is less of an issue.
>
> But I would assert that if I ask for "C-h C-i FOO" then I should be
> shown the doco for "FOO" and not for "foo".
It seems reasonable to use the same heuristic that searching does -- if the
search term is all lowercase, then ignore case in the lookup, otherwise (if
there some capital letters in the search term) do a case-sensitive lookup.
-Miles
--
Come now, if we were really planning to harm you, would we be waiting here,
beside the path, in the very darkest part of the forest?
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2002-12-05 15:09 ` info-lookup-symbol index case sensitivity Richard Stallman
2002-12-07 0:36 ` Kevin Ryde
2002-12-07 1:13 ` Miles Bader [this message]
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2002-12-10 23:19 ` Kevin Ryde
2002-12-21 22:18 ` Kevin Ryde
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