Re: question about linker

On 03.12.2024 17:09, Scott Lurndal wrote:

Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> writes:

>
These days, where case-sensitive data is normal, the often seen
case-insensitive default for searching is a pain, IMO.

 
In which utility is the default case insensitivity? 

In common daily use, the search in a browser, for example.
Also search engines, Google.

vim
and grep, for example, require options to provide case insensitive
searches.  (grep -i, vim :set ic, locate -i, et alia).

Sure. - In Vim or Grep I explicitly activate it in those
[rare] cases where I need it.

Unsurprisingly case-sensitivity is or seems generally be
the default behavior for Unix tools that usually provide
Regexp searches.

In Vim, specifically, there's also a 'smartcase' setting
available (which resembles what I wrote in my previous
post about a search depending on whether there's a cap
character in the search pattern)!

 
I suppose windows might do something so useless.

I'm not inclined to speak for or comment on Windows. :-)

Janis