From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: buffer name completion is case-sensitive now Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 12:21:30 -0700 Message-ID: <000101c8c99c$db56a930$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> References: <002201c8c986$68802b90$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com><002501c8c98f$d66552d0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com><85lk1f94vr.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85hcc39455.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1212952974 16112 80.91.229.12 (8 Jun 2008 19:22:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 19:22:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 'John Paul Wallington' , 'Richard G Riley' , 'Emacs-Devel' To: "'David Kastrup'" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 08 21:23:36 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K5QTz-0001ew-KL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 21:23:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36973 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K5QTC-0004Sq-H5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 15:22:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K5QSu-0004Fm-Vb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 15:22:09 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K5QSs-0004Ch-2v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 15:22:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55155 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K5QSr-0004CU-V6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 15:22:05 -0400 Original-Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]:31074) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K5QSl-0006Zs-Sq; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 15:22:00 -0400 Original-Received: from agmgw2.us.oracle.com (agmgw2.us.oracle.com [152.68.180.213]) by rgminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id m58JLvo6021117; Sun, 8 Jun 2008 13:21:57 -0600 Original-Received: from acsmt351.oracle.com (acsmt351.oracle.com [141.146.40.151]) by agmgw2.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.0/Switch-3.2.0) with ESMTP id m58EoZTS032678; Sun, 8 Jun 2008 13:21:56 -0600 Original-Received: from inet-141-146-46-1.oracle.com by acsmt350.oracle.com with ESMTP id 3688194581212952885; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 12:21:25 -0700 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/24.5.171.3) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 12:21:25 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-reply-to: <85hcc39455.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Thread-Index: AcjJlQt7PhYtq56QQMqC6I4jbciAHQABa7aA X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:98720 Archived-At: > But since the buffer system is not really tied into the file system, I > think it a reasonable hypothesis that the completion default > should not depend on the file system completion default. I agree. > I guess we already have Drew's vote about buffer name case sensitivity > on Windows in (even though he confuses "Windows" and "standard"). I think we should add a user option for this, similar to `read-file-name-completion-ignore-case': `buffer-name-completion-ignore-case'. I don't care much what the default value of that option would be. I'd vote for t, but the important thing is to give users a way to get the behavior they want.