Re: lax matching is not a great default behavior

[Andreas Röhler]

Am 28.11.2015 um 09:29 schrieb Andreas Schwab:
> Drew Adams <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > I realize that this would change the longstanding practice
> > of having letter-case folding be default.  I think that
> > choice made sense back when most programming languages and
> > OS's did not have a letter-case difference.  But I don't
> > think it is the best choice for the default behavior now.
>
> Case folding makes a lot of sense when searching in plain text, as is
> the case in this sentence when searching for "case".
>
> Andreas.

Notion resp. implementation of case-folding is unclear outside ASCII and 
related.

There must not be anything to be folded in a buffer. Folding is a notion 
which makes sense in special cases only - which are common in ASCII 
world, but not a reason for a default.

New users should not be bothered with this vast area. GNU Linux is 
case-sensitive and Emacs should start by default like that.

While specific language modes, like SQL, might or should change that.