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Re: Case sensitive regexp
From: |
Neon Absentius |
Subject: |
Re: Case sensitive regexp |
Date: |
Mon, 23 May 2005 04:39:33 +0000 |
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Mutt/1.4.2.1i |
On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 04:46:19AM +0200, Pascal Bourguignon wrote:
> Neon Absentius <absent@sdf.lonestar.org> writes:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > how can I make sure that the regular expressions are case sensitive?
> > By looking at the manual I thought that if the expression contains
> > a capital letter then it automatically is case sensitive. However
> > evaluating (looking-at "A") when the point is before an "a" returns
> > true.
>
> What regular expressions?
>
>From the elisp manual
,----
|- Function: looking-at regexp
| This function determines whether the text in the current buffer
| directly following point matches the regular expression REGEXP.
`----
So, since the regular expression "A" matches only the string "A" I
assumed that (looking-at "A") would return true only if the character
following point was "A".
> M-x apropos RET case-fold RET
>
> -->
> isearch-toggle-case-fold
> toggle-case-fold-search
>
> default-case-fold-search
>
Thanks. That did it.
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