Re: string-match case sensivity depends on case-fold-search buffer local value?

[Lennart Borgman]

Kevin Rodgers wrote:

> Lennart Borgman wrote:
>
> > I am beeing disturbed by this sentence in the docstring for 
> > `string-match':
> >
> >     Case is ignored if `case-fold-search' is non-nil in the current 
> > buffer.
> >
> > Is this really true?
>
>
> I hope so, otherwise how could you specify that the match must be
> case-sensitive or case-insensitive?  Now it can be done by let-
> binding case-fold-search.

Thanks, but there is still something I do not understand. Why is "the 
current buffer" mentioned? I thought that maybe it could not be let-bound.