From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: completing-read case problem Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 16:35:48 +0100 Message-ID: <005e01c4cb29$c7b8ef20$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> References: <200411101929.iAAJThfq007309@haifa.math.ias.edu> <200411140703.iAE73Gd1019094@haifa.math.ias.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1100533413 22895 80.91.229.6 (15 Nov 2004 15:43:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 15:43:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 15 16:43:18 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CTj0g-0003lZ-00 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 16:43:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CTj9N-00020S-VF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 10:52:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CTj9B-00020A-BI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 10:52:08 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CTj99-0001z8-Lf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 10:52:04 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CTj99-0001yh-Aj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 10:52:03 -0500 Original-Received: from [81.228.11.112] (helo=av5-2-sn1.fre.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CTj0J-0003Fe-UO; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 10:42:56 -0500 Original-Received: by av5-2-sn1.fre.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 64EF037F62; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 16:42:54 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp3-2-sn1.fre.skanova.net (smtp3-2-sn1.fre.skanova.net [81.228.11.164]) by av5-2-sn1.fre.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56FEF37E91; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 16:42:54 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from sedrcw11488 (t5o58p156.telia.com [195.67.196.156]) by smtp3-2-sn1.fre.skanova.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 0AFE937E43; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 16:42:52 +0100 (CET) Original-To: , "Markus Rost" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 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: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:29873 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:29873 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" To: "Markus Rost" Cc: 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? > > > _______________________________________________ > Emacs-devel mailing list > Emacs-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel >