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From: Bastien <bastienguerry@googlemail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Improve the docstring of case-fold-search
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:11:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eis9jfwj.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvfxcpie61.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:38:48 -0400")

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> As written, the doc is wrong.  The magic "pay attention to case if
> there's a capital letter" is not done "within case-fold-search" but
> within isearch (and maybe a few more places) which then bind
> case-fold-search to the appropriate value.

/me trying to figure out what other places...

> 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.

Yes.  And add a `case-fold-isearch' option with a docstring reflecting
the behavior described in the Search Case of the manual.  Be maybe there
are other functions than isearch that would make use of it.

-- 
 Bastien




  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-22  8:11 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 [this message]
2009-07-27  2:42   ` Bastien
2009-07-27 17:27     ` Stefan Monnier
2009-07-27 21:01       ` Bastien

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