From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Bastien <bastienguerry@googlemail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Improve the docstring of case-fold-search
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:27:48 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv63de2g2x.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877hxuonhz.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> (Bastien's message of "Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:42:16 +0800")
>> The case-fold-search variable is pretty low-level and applies to
>> functions like re-search-forward. Maybe it shouldn't be customizable to
>> avoid such confusion.
> As a first step toward this,
I don't see why you'd need steps for this.
> the attached patch creates an option for
> `isearch-case-fold-search'. The possible values for this option are:
> t : isearch ignores case
> nil : isearch does not ignore case
> 'yes : isearch ignores mixed case
> 'case-fold-search : isearch uses the local case-fold-search
> Is it okay to apply this?
I don't understand what use cases we're trying to address here.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-27 17:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-22 2:17 Improve the docstring of case-fold-search Bastien
2009-07-22 3:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-22 3:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-07-22 8:11 ` Bastien
2009-07-27 2:42 ` Bastien
2009-07-27 17:27 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2009-07-27 21:01 ` Bastien
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