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24.0.91; Isearch & `M-e'

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Message #53 received at 10113 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
Cc: 10113 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#10113: 24.0.91; Isearch & `M-e'
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2022 15:12:13 +0100

Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org> writes:

> The patch implemented automatic case-fold toggling in both directions,
> where typing a letter re-evaluates case-sensitivity of the search string.
> This might break some users' habits.  So another idea was to re-evaluate
> case-sensitivity only in `isearch-edit-string' and `isearch-del-char'.
> Still such change might be unexpected for some users.

So I guess the conclusion here is that we don't really want to do
anything?  The user can always use `M-c' to toggle the case sensitivity
if they've done some odd sequence of commands that end up with a
sensitivity that's not what they want.

So I'm therefore closing this bug report.

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