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: add `read-buffer-completion-ignore-case' ? Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:09:44 +0200 Message-ID: <86zlpv6kkn.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1213002677 1788 80.91.229.12 (9 Jun 2008 09:11:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 09:11:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jpw@pobox.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, Miles Bader To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 09 11:11:56 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 1K5dPv-0000S5-S5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:11:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45397 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K5dP8-00089G-Gu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Jun 2008 05:11:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K5dNu-00076I-1k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jun 2008 05:09:50 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K5dNs-000743-C8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jun 2008 05:09:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58463 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K5dNr-00073l-Vb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jun 2008 05:09:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.quinscape.de ([212.29.44.217]:45325) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K5dNr-00032s-If for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jun 2008 05:09:47 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail-ldap/ctrl 18918 invoked from network); 9 Jun 2008 09:09:45 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO lola.quinscape.zz) ([10.0.3.43]) (envelope-sender ) by quinx.quinscape.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 9 Jun 2008 09:09:44 -0000 Original-Received: by lola.quinscape.zz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 62AE58F1E1; Mon, 9 Jun 2008 11:09:44 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:45:38 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-AntiVirus: checked by AntiVir MailGate (version: 2.1.3-2; AVE: 7.8.0.55; VDF: 7.0.4.161; host: quinx) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:98784 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Miles Bader >> Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:59:21 +0900 >> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, John Paul Wallington >> >> Stefan Monnier writes: >> > I don't think we need yet-another configuration variable for that. >> > We should just reuse read-file-name-completion-ignore-case. >> >> Regardless of what some newbies think, buffer names and filenames are >> not the same. It is quite reasonable for someone to want to have one be >> case-insensitive but not the other. > > I don't necessarily disagree, but we do know which buffers are > associated with a file and which aren't. So we could DWIM in each > case as appropriate. If we want that, of course. I don't think we do. For non-file buffers, I don't really see that having different completion realms for "*Messages*" and "*mail*" is really an essential part of people's workflow. So it is not that important to differentiate here as well. What about buffers associated with a file, but with a file name not matching the buffer name? There is so much potential for messiness that I would not want to go there. -- David Kastrup