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* bug#32512: xref--read-identifier using etags backend should honor case-fold-search
@ 2018-08-23 16:11 Ludovic Brenta
  2018-08-23 17:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: Ludovic Brenta @ 2018-08-23 16:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 32512

Package: emacs
Version: 26.1
Severity: wishlist

Hello,

Suppose I have a file named foo-bar.adb containing:

package Foo.Bar is
end Foo.Bar;

and this has been tagged with etags, which is the backend in use for 
xref.

Now:
(a)
M-. foo.bar/b => jumps to foo-bar.adb line 1, "package Foo.Bar is".

but

(b)
M-. foo.bar <TAB> => "no match"

In (a), xref-find-definition took whatever my input was and honored
case-fold-search, which is t, to find the definition of the package.

But when I type <TAB> asking for possible completions, 
xref--read-identifier
is case-sensitive whether I like it or not.  Indeed:

(c)
M-. Foo.Bar <TAB> => produces the desired completion Foo.Bar/b

The inconsistency between (a) and (b) is anti-ergonomic.

I looked for a variable, separate from case-fold-search, that would
control the case sensitivity of completion in this case, but I couldn't
find one.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.






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2018-08-23 16:11 bug#32512: xref--read-identifier using etags backend should honor case-fold-search Ludovic Brenta
2018-08-23 17:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-24 10:35   ` Ludovic Brenta
2018-08-24 12:35     ` Ludovic Brenta
2018-08-24 14:35       ` Helmut Eller
2021-09-01  9:47         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-01 17:42           ` Ludovic Brenta
2021-09-02  7:45             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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