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Re: Improve the docstring of case-fold-search
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Bastien |
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Re: Improve the docstring of case-fold-search |
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Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:11:40 +0200 |
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Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
> As written, the doc is wrong. The magic "pay attention to case if
> there's a capital letter" is not done "within case-fold-search" but
> within isearch (and maybe a few more places) which then bind
> case-fold-search to the appropriate value.
/me trying to figure out what other places...
> 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.
Yes. And add a `case-fold-isearch' option with a docstring reflecting
the behavior described in the Search Case of the manual. Be maybe there
are other functions than isearch that would make use of it.
--
Bastien