Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them Date: Thu, 1 May 2025 22:07:19 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 12 Message-ID: References: <20250428080014.0000347f@gmail.com> <20250428111242.00007426@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 02 May 2025 00:07:19 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="e7c4d64329c4de231a956319955b3127"; logging-data="3740455"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/cAULj51XPuI/8SatY1Vce" User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Cancel-Lock: sha1:G1uX77V3WmTNbIv5QGLi/K0Mync= Bytes: 1896 On Thu, 1 May 2025 10:07:54 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > Anyone who writes code, or worse Regexp, knows that exact syntax > including case is de rigeur. 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. Kind of a best-of-both-worlds-with-minimal-faffing-about. That usually works quite well.