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Irving Kimura <irving_kimura@lycos.com> wrote on Wed, 12 Feb 2003
19:09:55 +0000 (UTC):

> Every once in a while, while working in Emacs, I do *something* (I
> don't know what) that turns off case-fold-search in all buffers.  After
> this point, all searches respect case, even if I reset case-fold-search
> to t.  The only way I've found to get out of this mess is to kill and
> restart Emacs.  Has anybody seen this behavior?  If so, is there a
> better way to regain case-fold searching than restarting?

I know it doesn't solve the problem, but you can use M-c within a search
to toggle case-foldigkeit.

> Thanks,

> 	-Irv

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