Variable: case-fold-search

case-fold-search is a customizable and buffer-local variable defined in buffer.c.

Documentation

Non-nil if searches and matches should ignore case.

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Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 18.

Source Code

// Defined in /usr/src/emacs/src/buffer.c
  DEFVAR_PER_BUFFER ("case-fold-search", &BVAR (current_buffer, case_fold_search),
		     Qnil,
		     doc: /* Non-nil if searches and matches should ignore case.  */);