On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 7:31 PM, Stefan Monnier
<monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> However it is a quite surprising organizing of case fold search
>> handling. It looks like it does not care about major mode or buffer
>> file extension, both of them which could be used to make a better
>> guess for case fold search.
>
> Yes, it's not perfect.  To a large extent it is explained by the fact
> that it's been that way for ages and back then Emacs did not try to be
> nearly as clever.
> Nowadays, I think etags.el would deserve to be improved so as to taken
> the major mode into account, and also so as to give precedence to
> case-exact matches, and also to automatically try the second-choice if
> the first makes you jump to where you started.
>
> IOW patches welcome,


OK. Patch attached.