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29.4; bug-reference-mode matches regexp case-insensitively

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Message #20 received at 73524 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Tassilo Horn <tsdh <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: ulm <at> gentoo.org, 73524 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#73524: 29.4; bug-reference-mode matches regexp
 case-insensitively
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2024 19:10:36 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> In the wild, bug references are almost always case-insensitive
>> because URLs are.  So one could say that maybe there should be a
>> bug-reference-case-fold-search defcustom (defaulting to t) in order
>> to decouple it from case-fold-search.
>
> If we want to always match case-insensitively in bug-reference, then
> we could bind case-fold-search to t in bug-reference-fontify, no?

Sure, if we are convinced that there's really no scenario where bug
references are case-sensitive.  I would think this is very uncommon but
not impossible.

Bye,
  Tassilo

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