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From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
Subject: Re: Case insensitive search
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Simon Thum <simon.thum@gmx.de> wrote:

> On 06/24/2012 05:21 PM, Karl Voit wrote:
> > * Simon Thum<simon.thum@gmx.de>  wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> thanks for sharing your setup. Piggybacking on this thread, I'm just
> >> starting with org-contacts and wonder how I could get it to perform
> >> case-insensitive searches? (This would make it easier to search for
> >> parts of names)
> >
> > http://sunsite.ualberta.ca/Documentation/Gnu/emacs-21.1/html_chapter/faq_5.html#SEC42
> > (setq case-fold-search t)   ; make searches case insensitive
> I ran across that already but figured it's a bit harsh for all of emacs 
> or org-mode, i.e. I am worried about unintended side-effects.
> 

One possible workaround for this kind of thing is to let-bind case-fold-search
in a wrapper function:

(defun my-fun (...)
   (let ((case-fold-search t))
     (orig-fun ...)))

It should work unles the original function also plays such games with
case-fold-search, in which case all bets are off. But it might be worth
spending a few minutes for a simple test, before you dig deeper.

Nick

> The trouble I'm having stems from the fact that org-contact search is 
> (AFAICT) an agenda search, which is case insensitive in my setup. So why 
> is org contacts case sensitive in the first place?
> 
> Thanks anyway, I'll dig deeper some time (but probably not today).
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Simon
>