From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 23117@debbugs.gnu.org, Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Subject: bug#23117: 25.0.92; Having pcomplete-ignore-case different from completion-ignore-case can lead to an error
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2021 17:08:07 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvsg66tdvg.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87blcw56a1.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sun, 07 Feb 2021 14:58:14 +0100")
>> 1. (setq pcomplete-ignore-case t)
>> 2. Keep completion-ignore-case at its default nil value.
>> 3. M-x shell
>> 3. Type 'cd /Usr/', press C-M-i.
>> 4. See the below error.
>>
>> Should the former variable just be made into an alias for the latter one?
>>
>> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Internal error: usr/games/ doesn’t match \\`Usr\\(.*?\\)/")
>
> This is still the case in Emacs 28, so the question remains, I guess --
> should one of them be made into an alias for the other,
That would be nice, yes.
> and in that case, which one should be the alias?
`pcomplete-ignore-case` fundamentally belongs to the pcomplete UI which
is considered obsolete, so I'd make that an alias for the
core variable `completion-ignore-case`.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-08 22:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-26 0:21 bug#23117: 25.0.92; Having pcomplete-ignore-case different from completion-ignore-case can lead to an error Dmitry Gutov
2021-02-07 13:58 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-08 22:08 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2021-02-09 8:24 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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