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bug#37907: --no-ignore-case option


From: arnold
Subject: bug#37907: --no-ignore-case option
Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2019 03:35:35 -0700
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Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 10/24/19 1:40 PM, address@hidden wrote:
>
> > I chose '-g' since that letter was unused. It has no mnemonic value.
>
> Thanks for implementing that. Other grep-like programs tend to use -I 
> for this option, since it negates -i. Obviously we can't do that right 
> now since -I means --binary-files=without-match to GNU grep. So I 
> installed the attached, which takes the more-conservative approach of 
> implementing just --no-ignore-case without any single-letter option. 
> Perhaps in the future we could deprecate -I and then eventually 
> repurpose it? But in the meantime this particular feature request is 
> done, so I'm taking the liberty of closing the bug report.

Much thanks, Paul.

Karl --- Enjoy! :-)

Arnold





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