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From: Ilya Shlyakhter <ilya_shl@alum.mit.edu>
Subject: Re: case sensitivity
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 12:07:58 -0400
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On 3/24/2012 2:58 AM, Bastien wrote:
>> How should case-sensitivity work in Org?  The documentation doesn't
>> specify.  From past messages, it looks like tags and todo keywords
>> are defined to be case-sensitive.  What about priorities, categories,
>> user-defined properties, regexp matching of entries, following of
>> links-to-headlines?  Other cases?

> If there is an issue with a syntactic element being case-(in)sensitive
> while (1) it should not and/or (2) docs suggests otherwise, then let's
> tackle the problem.

Problem is, docs are cleverly silent on the issue :)  So for one, it 
would be good if the docs specified it one way or the other at least
in the above cases.  But also in the code, case-fold-search is sometimes
explicitly set before testing regexps and sometimes isn't.  I started
fixing this, then realized that there is no spec for the right behavior.
So I thought I'd check with the list first.

ilya