Subject: RE: [PATCH] RE: bug#12988: isearch fails to persistently indicate case sensitivity

From: "Drew Adams" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 19:50:27 -0800

> >  isearch    - case-insensitive
> >  Isearch    - case-sensitive
> >  I search   -                and lax whitespace
> >  I*search   -                and regexp
> >  I* search  -                and lax ws and regexp
> >  ...
> 
> Then word and symbol search need indication too, e.g.:
> 
> <Isearch>     - word search
> _<Isearch_>   - symbol search

Why not?  Or shorter, reflecting syntax-class designator chars:

 Isearchw   - word
 Isearch_   - symbol
 I searchw  - word, lax whitespace
 I search_  - symbol, lax whitespace

(I still think `I SEARCH_' is better than `i search_' for
case-insensitive search.)