TIL: Smartcase in Vim

Last updated: Mon Jul 17 2023

Vim’s search function when you press / defaults to case-sensitive, which I’ve always found pretty annoying. It turns out you can enable “smartcase”, where search is case-insensitive unless you use uppercase characters in the search, pretty easily:

:set ignorecase smartcase

Do note that you have to enable both ignorecase and smartcase, or else the smartcase option does nothing.