Re: ASCII-folded search [was: Re: Upcoming loss of usability ...]

[Stefan Monnier]

>> > like "A" matches "a" in case insensitive mode),
>> It doesn't for me. If I type C-s A, it only matches the capital “A”.
>> Whereas if I type C-s a it matches both “a” and “A”. The same happens
>> during query-replace and other commands. That's a feature, not a flaw.
> Did you try invoking search non-interactively?  I think the feature is
> only in effect in interactive search.

Indeed.  It's a feature of isearch to decide automatically whether to
use case-fold-search or not based on the presence of upper case
characters (by default: this can be overridden at run time with M-x c).


        Stefan