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Re: grep-command: Ignore case if case-fold-search is non-nil


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: grep-command: Ignore case if case-fold-search is non-nil
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2016 11:03:03 -0700
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
case-fold-search defaults to non-nil, so this would make "M-x grep"
case-insensitive for many users.  I'm not sure they will like it.

Similarly for M-x grep-find and find's -i option, and for M-x vc-git-grep, and for M-x diff and diff's --ignore-case and --ignore-file-name-case options, and probably for other stuff.

It might be OK to add a new variable, which would have the effect of setting case-fold-search and all the other stuff, for users who want case-folding to be the default everywhere. But where would it stop? Would the new setting also have the effect of setting font-lock-keywords-case-fold-search, say?



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