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>>>>> "irving" == Irving Kimura <irving_kimura@lycos.com> writes:

irving> Every once in a while, while working in Emacs, I do
irving> *something* (I don't know what) that turns off
irving> case-fold-search in all buffers.  After this point, all
irving> searches respect case, even if I reset case-fold-search to t.

How did you "reset" it to t?  Using setq won't work because the
variable is buffer-local, meaning when you set it, the new
value only takes effect for the current buffer.  I think
the following should work though:

  (set-default 'case-fold-search t)

No clue how you got into this state...

...cj


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