Richard Stallman wrote:
> It would handle that one case, but it would still produce false
> matches.
>
It would only produce false matches for cases where Emacs would have
defaulted to Fundamental mode.
Yes, and that is a mistaken outcome. There is no reason to make such
mistakes happen. When an entry should match more than one case
pattern, we write it to do so. That's a small amount of work, and it
gives 100% correct results.
Please drop this idea.
The underlying problem here is that people receive files from sources
that use a case-insensitve filesystem.
This can happen to ANY type of file, so should we rewrite ALL our regexps?
Can you point to a single instance where doing a case-insensitve match
as a fallback would be harmful?
Perhaps it would be easier to eliminate any such cases by explicitly
adding them to auto-mode-alist.
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