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From: thomas@spline.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: isearch behavior
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Date: Sun, 5-Apr-87 04:38:56 EST
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I implemented a variant on this ("semi" case sensitive searches) for
gosmacs a long time ago in the incremental search code.  If the user
typed a capital letter in the search string, then I turned off
case-fold-search.  Thus, you could search in a case-sensitive way by
typing in a case-sensitive way (assuming, of course, that you weren't
looking for something that was all lower case).  It was really easy to
do (modulo the problems of making sure to unwind it properly) and
required no C code changes at all.

=Spencer   ({ihnp4,decvax}!utah-cs!thomas, thomas@cs.utah.edu)