GNU bug report logs - #16913
Please extend case-fold-search on-the-fly toggling

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>

Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 11:49:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: moreinfo

Fixed in version 29.1

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #31 received at 16913 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 16913 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>
Subject: Re: bug#16913: Please extend case-fold-search on-the-fly toggling
Date: Fri, 13 May 2022 20:00:55 +0300
>> The idea was to add the capability to do case-insensitive matching to
>> all commands that read regexs. The list of simple commands one would
>> have to write could be quite long!
>
> Yup.  I don't know what the best way for `read-regexp' to communicate
> this back up to the caller, though.  Perhaps the easiest would be to
> just add a new optional parameter to `read-regexp' that would make it
> activate the `M-c' key binding, and then return a list that has both the
> regexp we read and whether the user used a case twiddling command.

Maybe `read-regexp' could modify some global variable?




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