On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 12:40:26PM -0800, Gary Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 05:17:27PM +0000, Benjamin Smith wrote: > > Although the manual doesn't explicitly mention it, regular expressions in > > mutt seem to be case insensitive. So even although mutt supports > > [:lower:] and [:upper:], they do not work as expected and end up being > > equivalent to [:alpha:]. So does anyone know solutions to this, > > overrides in mutt, or any helpful patches. > > >From the mutt manual: > > 4.1. Regular Expressions > > ... > > The search is case sensitive if the pattern contains at least one > upper case letter, and case insensitive otherwise. .... > > So it may be that the pattern must contain at least one literal > upper-case letter to be case-sensitive and that [:upper:] doesn't count > for that. If using [:upper:] doesn't make the search case-sensitive, I > would say that's a bug.
A flea you mean :) I agree, [:upper:] should imply case-sensitivity. Probably an oversight rather than a bug. Should not be too difficult to change. -- Regards Cliff
