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Re:A common mistake involving wildcards and the find command by mikenew on Saturday February 08, 2020 @10:09PM (#22280145)
> Smart case: the search is case-insensitive by default. It switches to case-sensitive if the pattern contains an uppercase character*.

This is what I want as a default for pretty much any text search.

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Re:A common mistake involving wildcards and the find command by josteink on Sunday February 09, 2020 @01:59AM (#22280811)
Emacs have had this since forever. It’s pretty neat.
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Re:A common mistake involving wildcards and the find command by Lio on Sunday February 09, 2020 @04:09AM (#22281182)
Vim also provides it if you use:

  :set smartcase
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