Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!mhres!jv From: jv@mh.nl (Johan Vromans) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs Subject: suggestion for search enhancement Message-ID: Date: 14 Jun 89 03:04:32 GMT Sender: jv@mhres.mh.nl Reply-To: Johan Vromans Organization: Multihouse Gouda, the Netherlands Lines: 16 Once I wrote a small emacs look&feel alike editor, and one of the users requested me to implemented the following feature, which I hereby propose to the FSF. When searching, and case-fold-search is t, temporary switch it to nil if the search argument contains uppercase letters. After using this method for a number of years, we never felt the need to switch case-fold-search by hand again. Johan -- Johan Vromans jv@mh.nl via european backbone (mcvax) Multihouse Automatisering bv uucp: ..!{mcvax,hp4nl}!mh.nl!jv Doesburgweg 7 phone: +31 1820 62944 2803 PL Gouda - The Netherlands fax: +31 1820 62500