Strict case-sensitive search in counsel-*g when case-folding is off

[vishesh]

When I turn off case-folding in counsel-*g functions, it still gives treats the query term as case folded. Turning off case-folding is necessary when you want to do case-sensitive query on is all lower case term.

[basil-conto]

Functions such as counsel-ag and counsel-rg delegate the search logic to their corresponding tools ag and rg. You can customise the corresponding command either statically via counsel-ag-base-command, counsel-rg-base-command, etc., or dynamically by interactively specifying flags such as --case-sensitive (see #1408 and #1559).

See also #1542.

[vishesh]

Thanks for the response. Dynamically changing the base-command was I was thinking as well. I however, wanted to bring it here, because as a user I felt like the behavior of turning on/off case-folding should work same out-of-box across the commands provided by this package. It was a bit confusing when it worked for swiper but not for counsel-rg.

I understand however, it brings other problems since the command used by ag/rg is in general configurable and if user changes it, it may break this anyway. In that case, I would be happy to create a wiki to document whatever hack I do to get it working.

[basil-conto]

I would be happy to create a wiki to document whatever hack I do to get it working

Please do, regardless of any other outcomes of this issue.

[abo-abo]

Thanks, please test. I checked that ag, rg and ack all have the same -i flag to ignore case.