Re: Improve the docstring of case-fold-search

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

>> 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