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bug#56401: "Case folding" should be called "ignore case"
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#56401: "Case folding" should be called "ignore case" |
Date: |
Tue, 05 Jul 2022 18:59:51 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:
> The "case fold" terminology is too technical and not very user-friendly.
> In other software, in most user-facing contexts, it is called "ignore
> case".
>
> Please consider renaming all variables, commands, and documentation to
> refer to "ignore case" instead of "case folding".
I agree that "ignore case" would be better, but it somehow seems like
most people don't have much problem with the "case folding" terminology?
In any case, I think renaming all the functions and variables here would
not be worth the churn -- there's quite a lot of them.
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