From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: buffer name completion is case-sensitive now Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2008 20:29:01 +0200 Message-ID: <85bq2b93wy.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <002201c8c986$68802b90$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> <002501c8c98f$d66552d0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> <85lk1f94vr.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1212949781 6657 80.91.229.12 (8 Jun 2008 18:29:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 18:29:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 'Emacs-Devel' , Drew Adams , 'John Paul Wallington' To: Richard G Riley Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 08 20:30:23 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 1K5Peo-0003Ha-F3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 20:30:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:32825 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K5Pe1-0006Nv-6Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 14:29:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K5Pda-00069u-RZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 14:29:06 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K5PdZ-00069C-0g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 14:29:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58370 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K5PdY-000696-KR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 14:29:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-16.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.56]:55779) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K5PdY-0006S8-EV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 14:29:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-09-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-09-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.21]) by mail-in-16.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97E131FF229; Sun, 8 Jun 2008 20:29:02 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-in-12.arcor-online.net (mail-in-12.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.52]) by mail-in-09-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8277A28EF89; Sun, 8 Jun 2008 20:29:02 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-030-190.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.30.190]) by mail-in-12.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id F11DA8C482; Sun, 8 Jun 2008 20:29:01 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 4F5771C4D3D2; Sun, 8 Jun 2008 20:29:01 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Richard G. Riley's message of "Sun, 08 Jun 2008 20:19:54 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.92.1/7404/Sun Jun 8 18:19:18 2008 on mail-in-12.arcor-online.net X-Virus-Status: Clean 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:98708 Archived-At: Richard G Riley writes: > David Kastrup writes: > >> "Drew Adams" writes: >> >>> "Probably"? That has been the behavior for decades. How can it be >>> changed willy-nilly, with no discussion? >> >> A rant is not a discussion. > > With all due respect, this is quite a fundamental change to the way a > major emacs UI component works. On Windows and MacOS, nowhere else. And the buffer system is not operating system dependent. > It should remain case insensitive IMO and Drew's comments were hardly > a rant. I suggest you read the whole of Drew's post through again. There is very little actual content (mostly repetitions in different words), and quite loaded vocabulary. Pretty much the definition of a rant. > Keep up the good work folks - emacs is a wonderful environment. As long as one does not have to read the developer list for working with it... -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum