From: "Lennart Borgman" <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: completing-read case problem
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 16:35:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <005e01c4cb29$c7b8ef20$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> (raw)
In-Reply-To: E1CThP2-0003U1-E4@fencepost.gnu.org
Case insensitive please! (I am using ms windows so I am biased by my habits
in this case, but I would believe that a lot of users like case insensitive
handling. Compare with mail-addresses for example, they are since long not
case sensitive.)
- Lennart
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Stallman" <rms@gnu.org>
To: "Markus Rost" <rost@ias.edu>
Cc: <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 3:00 PM
Subject: Re: completing-read case problem
> > It is unreasonable to use a case-sensitive predicate with
> > completion-ignore-case non-nil.
>
> But it can be inconvenient if one has to avoid using a case-sensitive
> predicate.
>
> Not very much. You just have to downcase the string first.
>
> It would be inconvenient to change Emacs to remove this requirement,
> and I don't have time to even think about it.
>
> You get a buffer "*Customize Group: Mouse*" showing no members of the
> (non-empty) group 'mouse -- which is not what is intended. This
> problem appears because of completing-read with non-nil
> completion-ignore-case in customize-group. completing-read returns
> "Mouse", which is not the symbol-name of group 'mouse.
>
> There are two ways to fix this:
>
> 1. Decide that case is significant in custom group names,
> and read them case-sensitively.
>
> 2. Decide that case is not significant in custom group names,
> and that they should all be lower case.
>
> Either one seems ok to me.
> What do others think?
>
>
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2004-11-15 14:00 ` completing-read case problem Richard Stallman
2004-11-15 15:35 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2004-11-15 18:49 ` Kevin Rodgers
2004-11-15 20:19 ` Simon Josefsson
2004-11-15 22:06 ` Stefan Monnier
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2004-11-15 19:43 ` Markus Rost
2004-11-15 23:07 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-11-16 2:52 ` Markus Rost
2004-11-21 1:10 ` Richard Stallman
2004-11-21 5:18 ` Markus Rost
2004-11-21 19:02 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-11-22 14:07 ` Richard Stallman
2004-11-16 4:00 Markus Rost
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