Re: Case-sensitive support with regexp specials ?

[Sun Yijiang]

In vim regexp, `\c' means "ignore case diffs from here" and `\C' means
"consider case diffs from here".  Thus, `\chello\CWorld' matches
"HeLloWorld" but does not match "helloWoRLd".  In GNU Emacs, this
regexp should be `[hH][eE][lL][lL][oO]World', which is a little bit
ugly and not very convenient in some cases.


On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 09:57:49 -0500, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:
>    It seems that Emacs only provides a method to do case insensitive
>    search with "regexp search functions", not with "regexp specials",
>    like vim does.
> 
> Sorry, I don't know what that means.  I do not use vim.
> Could you explain?
>