GNU bug report logs - #56401
"Case folding" should be called "ignore case"

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2022 16:05:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #23 received at 56401 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 56401 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Subject: Re: bug#56401: "Case folding" should be called "ignore case"
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2022 17:36:05 +0800

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

> In any case, I think renaming all the functions and variables here would
> not be worth the churn -- there's quite a lot of them.

+1.  For what it's worth, the glossary in the Emacs manual also tells
you what "Case Folding" means.
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