From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Markus Triska'" <markus.triska@gmx.at>, <emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: 23.0.60; OSX: Case insensitive file name completion
Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 06:22:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <003801c8ac57$90560d70$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080502052901.C805083E036@mt-computer.local>
> On OSX 10.4.11, I have ~/Desktop and ~/DES.pdf. Until recently, when I
> did "C-x C-f ~/Des TAB", it would expand to Desktop. Now, both
> "DES.pdf" and "Desktop" are considered possible expansions of "Des".
>
> I see the point, because the default file system on OSX appears to be
> case insensitive. Still, it is a regression for me: I find the
> previous default behaviour of Emacs (which is also the default in
> 22.2) much better, since it often allows faster expansion if you know
> the stored case of a file. Is there a way to get it back? Thanks!
>
>
> In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.2 (i386-apple-darwin8.11.1, GTK+ Version 2.12.9)
> of 2008-04-29 on mt-computer.local
> Windowing system distributor `The XFree86 Project, Inc',
> version 11.0.40400000
> configured using `configure '--disable-font-backend''
I could be wrong, but I suspect the difference is that PDF files (*.pdf) are no
longer ignored files for completion (variable `completion-ignored-extensions'),
by default.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-02 13:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-02 5:29 23.0.60; OSX: Case insensitive file name completion Markus Triska
2008-05-02 13:22 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2008-05-02 13:32 ` Markus Triska
2008-05-02 13:48 ` Drew Adams
2008-05-02 14:18 ` Markus Triska
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