From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 11338@debbugs.gnu.org, stephen.berman@gmx.net
Subject: bug#11338: 24.1.50; read-buffer-completion-ignore-case fails on one-character names
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2020 17:21:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mtyofev3.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83k0ts7102.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 08 Dec 2020 17:47:57 +0200")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> I've never used that variable before, and the behaviour was unexpected
>> to me, but I don't know what people who do use it expect. It's pretty
>> odd, though -- the variable is about completion, but Emacs now seems to
>> interpret it as "Emacs should ignore all case differences in buffer
>> names (interactively)", which is something slightly different.
>
> RET in the minibuffer invokes completion, doesn't it?
Not usually. Try
emacs -Q
C-x b *Me RET
You'll get a buffer called "*Me" without that being completed to
"*Messages*".
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-08 16:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-25 15:37 bug#11338: 24.1.50; read-buffer-completion-ignore-case fails on one-character names Stephen Berman
2020-12-07 17:20 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-07 18:20 ` Stephen Berman
2020-12-08 13:57 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-08 15:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-08 16:21 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2020-12-08 16:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-08 17:25 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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