From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Case sensitive regexp Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 11:18:32 -0600 Message-ID: References: <20050523012636.GA12434@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1116869124 10462 80.91.229.2 (23 May 2005 17:25:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 17:25:24 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 23 19:25:22 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DaGeQ-0006iH-5n for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 May 2005 19:23:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DaGhu-0000lM-RA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 May 2005 13:27:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DaGhf-0000kJ-RF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 May 2005 13:26:59 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DaGhe-0000jk-Uq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 May 2005 13:26:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DaGhe-0000hB-Da for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 May 2005 13:26:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1DaGme-0006Px-OG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 May 2005 13:32:09 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1DaGaP-00069X-3N for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 May 2005 19:19:29 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.60 ([207.167.42.60]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 23 May 2005 19:19:29 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.60 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 23 May 2005 19:19:29 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.60 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041105) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <20050523012636.GA12434@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:26934 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:26934 Neon Absentius wrote: > how can I make sure that the regular expressions are case sensitive? > By looking at the manual I thought that if the expression contains > a capital letter then it automatically is case sensitive. I think that is true when the regexp is entered interactively, e.g. with C-s. > However > evaluating (looking-at "A") when the point is before an "a" returns > true. Try (let ((case-fold-search nil)) (looking-at "A")) -- Kevin Rodgers