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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Subject: Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them
Date: 1 May 2025 22:49:42 GMT
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On Thu, 1 May 2025 22:07:19 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> I do regexps all the time. I appreciate the fact that the default
> setting for searches in Emacs (for both plain strings and regexps) is to
> be case- insensitive, unless the pattern/string includes a capital
> letter, in which case it becomes case-sensitive.

My default in Vim is to ignore case. ':se noic'  (set no ignorecase) is 
easy enough if I'm looking for a specific camel case item. ':se ic' puts 
it back to insensitive. Having it triggered by a capital letter might be 
nice but I've got a feeling sooner or later there would be an edge case.