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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Wenlong Dai <whudwl@gmail.com>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: Search Case Sensitivity
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2020 07:28:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a6ve6gzp.fsf@tethera.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADmxP+M66e7NUp7utquNpuzTmfY6-w5gXUf2Mw8hZ+R=nX6+YQ@mail.gmail.com>

Wenlong Dai <whudwl@gmail.com> writes:

> Based on my usage and testing, it seems to me that all notmuch searches are
> case-sensitive.
> Is this true?
> Is there a way to do case-insensitive search?

Most searches (other than boolean prefixes and regex searches) are in
fact case insensitive. The definition of case is English-centric. Can
you give an example of a search that is case-sensitive that you are
expecting to be case insensitive?

d

  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-18 11:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-18 11:02 Search Case Sensitivity Wenlong Dai
2020-11-18 11:28 ` David Bremner [this message]
2020-11-18 20:56   ` Wenlong Dai
2020-11-18 22:53     ` David Bremner

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