Stef Epardaud <stef(a)lunatech.com&gt; wrote: The whole point is that you can't tell. Maybe Joe wants lowercase `blabla' to be replaced (lie I do most of the time), or maybe not. You just can't tell. However, there's a big difference in finding an uppercase letter in FROM because there's no reason to type uppercase letters in there, unless you actually want case sensitivity. There, you *can* tell[1]. Well, no. If I want to convert all instances of "emacs" and "Emacs" to "EMACS", sure I don't want case sensitivity. I'm happy to do a `replace "emacs" with "EMACS"' without case sensitivity. BTW, the real problem is that case-fold-search is an abomination though. We have to cope with it. Footnotes: [1] Kyle objected once that this is not always the case, like if you're pasting an X selection. -- / / _ _ Didier Verna http://www.inf.enst.fr/~verna/ - / / - / / /_/ / ENST, INFRES C201.1 mailto:verna＠inf.enst.fr /_/ / /_/ / /__ / 46 rue Barrault Tel. +33 (1) 45 81 73 46 75013 Paris, France Fax. +33 (1) 45 81 31 19