From: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com>
Subject: RE: grep-command: Ignore case if case-fold-search is non-nil
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 00:14:27 +0900 (JST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1609190011230.30731@calancha-pc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ed55c03b-ebdb-46ab-99be-1a1c50eccf16@default>
On Sun, 18 Sep 2016, Drew Adams wrote:
>> 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?
>
> No.
>
> Just because you might want to search the current buffer
> case-(in)sensitively, that in no way implies that you want to
> search a set of files somewhere the same way.
>
> `grep' is an external command. It is not about acting (e.g.,
> searching) buffers within Emacs.
Ok, let me change my question.
Should `grep' family of commands in Emacs pass '-i' as default,
regardless of the `case-fold-search' value in current buffer,
if the user didn't customize `grep-command'?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-18 15:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-18 9:31 grep-command: Ignore case if case-fold-search is non-nil Tino Calancha
2016-09-18 9:57 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-09-18 10:30 ` Tino Calancha
2016-09-18 10:52 ` Richard Copley
2016-09-18 11:09 ` Tino Calancha
2016-09-18 11:55 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-09-18 14:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-18 15:10 ` Tino Calancha
2016-09-18 16:52 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-09-18 18:03 ` Paul Eggert
2016-09-18 15:05 ` Drew Adams
2016-09-18 15:14 ` Tino Calancha [this message]
2016-09-18 15:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-18 17:55 ` Drew Adams
2016-09-18 18:05 ` Tino Calancha
2016-09-18 18:16 ` Drew Adams
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