GNU bug report logs - #54804
29.0.50; zap-to-char: case sensitive for upper-case letter

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2022 22:05:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: patch

Found in version 29.0.50

Done: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #65 received at 54804 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: juri <at> linkov.net, 54804 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name,
 uyennhi.qm <at> gmail.com, Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#54804: 29.0.50; zap-to-char: case sensitive for upper-case
 letter
Date: Tue, 17 May 2022 08:51:22 -0400

>> I want the analog behavior for zap-to... commands: automatic
>> case sensitivity when the char is uppercase.
>> I want this behavior on interactive calls only, for instance when users
>> do `M-z'.
>
> As I said I disagree: these are DWIMish features that are best
> reserved for interactive invocation.  In calls from Lisp, it is
> confusing to have the behavior change so drastically depending on the
> letter-case of an argument.

Am I misunderstanding something or are you two violently agreeing?


        Stefan
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