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Summary:
In Objective-C development, it is common to have a set of identifiers that contain the same words but different cases. For example, a class might contain this:

- (Foo *)foo { return self._foo; }
- (void)setFoo:(Foo *)newFoo { self._foo = newFoo; }

If one wants to change this, or copy-paste-and-replace to create similar methods for a different word, one has to perform two separate search-and-replace operations. For example, to change the above from foo/setFoo to bar/setBar, one to first replace "foo" with "bar" and then replace "Foo" with "Bar". And a third operation may be needed if there is also a need to replace "FOO" with "BAR".

For such situations, it would be helpful if the Xcode find/replace function offered an option to try to match the case when replacing. So, rather than requiring three separate find-and-replace operations, the editor would be smart enough to try to match the case pattern.

Such functionality already exists in Emacs (see http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Replacement-and-Case.html) and in Sublime Text (the "Preserve Case" option).

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Xcode 5.0.2/OS X 10.9.1

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