From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita2@gmail.com>
Cc: 51858@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#51858: 29.0.50; pcomplete not ignoring case
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2021 06:59:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ee7i0xiq.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2r1bigec7.fsf@gmail.com> (Carlos Pita's message of "Mon, 15 Nov 2021 02:47:20 -0300")
Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita2@gmail.com> writes:
> the docstring for pcomplete-ignore-case (which is now an alias for
> completion-ignore-case) says:
>
> Non-nil means don’t consider case significant in completion.
> For file-name completion, ‘read-file-name-completion-ignore-case’
> controls the behavior, rather than this variable.
>
> But if I set read-file-name-completion-ignore-case to t I'm still unable
> to complete, for example, "cd ~/desk<tab>" to "cd ~/Desktop" in a
> shell. OTOH setting pcomplete-ignore-case to t gives the desired
> completion.
>
> I'm not sure whether something like "cd ~/desk<tab>" in a M-x shell
> counts as "file-name completion" or not, but it seems to me that it
> should.
Just to clarify -- read-file-name-completion-ignore-case works
everywhere else, but doesn't work in a *shell* buffer?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-15 5:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-15 5:47 bug#51858: 29.0.50; pcomplete not ignoring case Carlos Pita
2021-11-15 5:59 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2021-11-15 7:16 ` Carlos Pita
2021-11-15 8:00 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-19 5:06 ` Carlos Pita
2021-11-19 5:32 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-20 13:32 ` bug#51858: Completion in shell buffers " Lars Ingebrigtsen
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