GNU bug report logs - #1297
font-lock-keywords-case-fold-search doc and usage

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> ics.uci.edu>

Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2008 16:05:05 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> ics.uci.edu>
Cc: 1297 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#1297: font-lock-keywords-case-fold-search doc and usage
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 10:19:45 -0500

Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> ics.uci.edu> writes:

>   > Great catch.  No one has complained about this, so clearly it's OK for
>   > font-lock-keywords-case-fold-search to be nil.  I removed the bogus
>   > 8-year-old setting of font-lock-keywords-case-fold-search.
>
> But that's not quite right, not sure about the standard, but there are
> lisps that are case insensitive:
>
> (DEFUN foo (arg)
>  blah)
>
> ought to be fontified the same was as:
>
> (defun foo (arg)
>  blah)

We can put this in the wishlist.  I don't see any reason to rock this
particular boat right now.
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