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From: Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: variable names in manual
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 09:21:53 +0200
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Hi Bastien,

On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 08:56:19AM +0200, Bastien wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> Greg Minshall <minshall@umich.edu> writes:
> 
> > but, it means that placing the cursor over the name and hitting C-h v
> > doesn't default to that name.  (and, i've always found that a convenient
> > way to navigate.)
> >
> > so, just curious is it might make sense to revert to lower case
> > names.
> 
> IMHO this rather call for making C-h v (and C-h f) case-non-sensitive.
> 
> Maybe you can fill an Emacs bug for this?  M-x report-emacs-bug RET

I believe that would be incorrect behaviour.  If I'm not mistaken,
emacs-lisp variable names are case sensitive.

  (setq test "lower case"
        TEST "UPPER CASE")
  
  (message "%s, %s" test TEST)

The above prints "lower case, UPPER CASE".

Cheers,

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Suvayu

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