From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: grep-command: Ignore case if case-fold-search is non-nil
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2016 18:52:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87poo11778.fsf@linux-m68k.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1609190003410.30731@calancha-pc> (Tino Calancha's message of "Mon, 19 Sep 2016 00:10:22 +0900 (JST)")
On Sep 19 2016, Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com> wrote:
> case-insensitive searches is a great default: it maximize the search
> space, no worries to missing a match.
It also maximised the false hits. Unlike Emacs, grep doesn't revert
back to case sensitive matching if the search term contains upper case
letters.
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-18 16:52 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 [this message]
2016-09-18 18:03 ` Paul Eggert
2016-09-18 15:05 ` Drew Adams
2016-09-18 15:14 ` Tino Calancha
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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