From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: grep-command: Ignore case if case-fold-search is non-nil Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2016 17:45:14 +0300 Message-ID: <83intti7wl.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1474209947 15703 195.159.176.226 (18 Sep 2016 14:45:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2016 14:45:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Tino Calancha Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 18 16:45:43 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bldLf-0003Ei-G6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Sep 2016 16:45:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50362 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bldLd-0007K9-7w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Sep 2016 10:45:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43134) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bldL7-0007Iy-ED for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Sep 2016 10:45:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bldL4-0005lZ-2s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Sep 2016 10:45:05 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:49305) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bldL4-0005kC-0X; Sun, 18 Sep 2016 10:45:02 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:2926 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1bldL1-0001vH-Bg; Sun, 18 Sep 2016 10:45:00 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Tino Calancha on Sun, 18 Sep 2016 18:31:03 +0900 (JST)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:207550 Archived-At: > From: Tino Calancha > Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2016 18:31:03 +0900 (JST) > Cc: tino.calancha@gmail.com > > Do you think `grep-compute-defaults' should add '-i', i.e., ignore case, > in the default `grep-command' when `case-fold-search' is non-nil? case-fold-search defaults to non-nil, so this would make "M-x grep" case-insensitive for many users. I'm not sure they will like it. More generally, it is not clear to me that a the connection between the buffer from which "M-x grep" is invoked and the search is strong enough to make the Grep search "inherit" the case-sensitivity of buffer searches.