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by nolemurs 3077 days ago
`alias rg='rg -S'` in your `.bashrc` will fix that for you.

Out of curiosity, what sort of searches do you do that smartcase is desirable? A meaningful number of people seem to prefer it, but I find that most of the time I want to be able to search for variables etc. case sensitively.
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mhd 3077 days ago
We were talking about defaults and feelings here, I'm aware that it's easy enough to fix (and to be fair, I now often use ripgrep with the inverse alias)…

I'm generally a big fan of smartcase. Most of the time I don't care about case and it's easier to type it that way, and when I care, it's often mixed or upper case, so smartcase Does What I Mean. And for the few times when I explicitly search for all-lowercase, it's easy enough to turn it off (M-c, -s, :set nosmartcase etc.).

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petdance 3077 days ago
I added smartcase in ack because I used it constantly in vim. I don't normally want to have to remember if the function I'm searching for is "format_ISBN" or "format_isbn", for example. Some languages (PHP) aren't always case-sensitive, so you need to search both. I'd rather use a "-I" in the few cases where I don't want case-sensitive, than having to remember to add "-i" in the 99% of the cases where I don't.
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