Re: Case-sensitivity in regular expressions and sparse trees for tags

[Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>]

Hi Chris,

On Sep 17, 2008, at 9:38 PM, Chris Randle wrote:

> Hi Gerrit
>
> Forgive me if I've misunderstood regular expressions in Emacs or
> Org-mode in some fundamental way!
>
> I have some tags which begin "CD" followed by a number. For example
>
> * Tagged Heading  :CD123:
>
> When I ask for a sparse tree of all tags beginning with "CD", I do
>
> 'C-c / T'
>
> And ask for tags of
>
> {^CD.*}
>
> This doesn't return any of the tagged headlines, but this does:
>
> {^cd.*}
>
> Is this a bug, or my misunderstanding? Obviously this is no
> show-stopper, I just make sure that all my regexp searches are in  
> lower
> case, but thought I'd check.

It may be a bug, and a misunderstanding.

1. I do downcase all tage before they are tested in the matcher.
2. This seems to indicate that I do want the matching to be case- 
insensitive.
3. I do set case-fold-search to nil, which seems to contradict (2)


For now, I recommend to write all regexps with lower case letters.  I  
need to try to remember why I did not set case-fold-search.

Thanks for the report.

- Carsten


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