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

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Cc: 56401 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#56401: "Case folding" should be called "ignore case"
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2022 18:59:51 +0200

Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se> writes:

> The "case fold" terminology is too technical and not very user-friendly.
> In other software, in most user-facing contexts, it is called "ignore
> case".
>
> Please consider renaming all variables, commands, and documentation to
> refer to "ignore case" instead of "case folding".

I agree that "ignore case" would be better, but it somehow seems like
most people don't have much problem with the "case folding" terminology?

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.

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