GNU bug report logs - #12988
isearch fails to persistently indicate case sensitivity

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Kelly Dean <kellydeanch <at> yahoo.com>

Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 02:08:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: wontfix

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: "'Juri Linkov'" <juri <at> jurta.org>
Cc: 'Kelly Dean' <kellydeanch <at> yahoo.com>, 12988 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12988: [PATCH] RE: bug#12988: isearch fails to persistently indicate case sensitivity
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.)
This bug report was last modified 3 years and 27 days ago.

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