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[aglew at urbsdc.Urbana.Gould.COM]

>>.....  There are also some files where I want ignorecase turned off, while
>>I want it on 95% of the time.
>
>Curiousity has gotten the better of me and unfortunately I cannot send replies
>from this machine .... but why turn on ignorecase?  In the six or seven years
>I have used and taught vi I have never heard of anyone using this feature and
>would appreciate what Jim Harkins' (and anyone else's) motivation is for
>turning it on.
>
>Thank you.
>
>Just a guest here.  In real life
>Carl Brandauer
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>uunet!nbires!bdaemon!carl

I have used ignorecase in vi since the second week I used vi,
and use the equivalent feature as my default in GNU EMACS
(I have a key customized to toggle it on and off).

Why? Because I do a lot of writing for humans about computer
topics, and am never quite sure if an all lower case variable
name should be capitalized at the beginning of the sentence.
Because I have programmed in environments where 
EveryIdentifierHasCapsInIt but IcannotAlwaysRememberWhichOnesDO
and exactlyWhere. 'Nuff said?