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 23:43:02 -0700 Message-ID: <001701c8c9fc$11392b40$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> References: <002201c8c986$68802b90$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com><002501c8c98f$d66552d0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> 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 1212993808 7075 80.91.229.12 (9 Jun 2008 06:43:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 06:43:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 'Richard G Riley' , 'Emacs-Devel' To: "'Stefan Monnier'" , "'John Paul Wallington'" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 09 08:44:10 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 1K5b6u-0008WA-Ii for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Jun 2008 08:44:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55847 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K5b67-0000pq-Bu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Jun 2008 02:43:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K5b61-0000ox-HD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jun 2008 02:43:13 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K5b60-0000oN-34 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jun 2008 02:43:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=57368 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K5b5z-0000oK-Un for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jun 2008 02:43:11 -0400 Original-Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]:22722) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K5b5z-0002hF-D5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jun 2008 02:43:11 -0400 Original-Received: from rgmgw2.us.oracle.com (rgmgw2.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.111]) by rgminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id m596h8RB023929; Mon, 9 Jun 2008 00:43:08 -0600 Original-Received: from acsmt351.oracle.com (acsmt351.oracle.com [141.146.40.151]) by rgmgw2.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.2.4) with ESMTP id m58NV7Er015964; Mon, 9 Jun 2008 00:43:07 -0600 Original-Received: from inet-141-146-46-1.oracle.com by acsmt350.oracle.com with ESMTP id 3688511281212993776; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 23:42:56 -0700 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/24.5.171.3) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 23:42:56 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-reply-to: Thread-Index: AcjJ0uV0hTYOI7gpRoWRH2Q0L8Fa6QAI6P5A 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:98767 Archived-At: > > Well, that's a matter of opinion. The default value of `completion- > > ignore-case' is nil for all other systems bar MS-Windows. I agree > > with you that buffer names are another case, in addition to > > filenames, where MS-Windows systems should do case-insensitive > > completion. I think that > > Given the fact that buffer-names are generally derived directly from > file-names, I suggest we change read-buffer to obey > read-file-name-completion-ignore-case. For the record, I disagree. I won't repeat all that was said, but some of us have pointed out that the two kinds of object are different. Buffer names are _not_ generally derived directly from file names. > > Is it okay to install the following change? > > I don't think we need yet-another configuration variable for that. > We should just reuse read-file-name-completion-ignore-case. Again, I disagree. A screw is not a nail, even if it is sometimes good enough to just hammer it in.