Case-insenstive TAGS for FORTRAN etc

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>>>>> "Tim" == Tim Connors <[email protected]> writes:

    Tim> I don't suppose there is an option (or is it feasible to add
    Tim> an option) to do case insensetive lookups on (find-tag), is
    Tim> there?

try adding

(defvar tags-are-case-insensitive t)

to etags.el, search for all occurances of 'case-fold-search', replace
the binding `nil' with the binding `tags-are-case-insensitive' (I
think they're all let-bindings), and M-x byte-compile-and-load-file
RET RET.

If that works for you, let us know and we can consider the (slightly)
harder problem of arranging that tags are case-insensitive exactly
when they should be (probably a buffer-local and an addition to the
mode; main issue is what do you do with mixed-mode programming, where
a C program calls a FORTRAN subroutine or something like
that?---ignore it, probably...).


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