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From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: John Paul Wallington <jpw@pobox.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: add `read-buffer-completion-ignore-case' ?
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:26:03 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lk1edqs4.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvtzg2xf99.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:15:13 -0400")

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> 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.
>
> Maybe it's reasonable, but I don't think it matters.
> So this is irrelevant without a more concrete reason.

I've found case-insensitivity in buffer-name matching generated a lot of
annoying "conflicts" due to non-file buffers (e.g. *Group* and *grep*).

[I currently use case-insensitive at work, and case-sensitive at home :-]

Since there wasn't much choice in the past, I've not experimented with
other combinations, but I'd like to.

-Miles

-- 
A zen-buddhist walked into a pizza shop and
said, "Make me one with everything."




  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-10  1:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-08 21:28 add `read-buffer-completion-ignore-case' ? John Paul Wallington
2008-06-08 22:46 ` Drew Adams
2008-06-08 22:51 ` doc strings for read-*-completion-ignore-case [was: add `read-buffer-completion-ignore-case' ?] Drew Adams
2008-06-09  1:53 ` add `read-buffer-completion-ignore-case' ? Stefan Monnier
2008-06-09  2:59   ` Miles Bader
2008-06-09  6:45     ` Drew Adams
2008-06-09  8:45     ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-09  9:09       ` David Kastrup
2008-06-09  9:10       ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-06-10  1:15     ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-10  1:26       ` Miles Bader [this message]
2008-06-10  2:41         ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-09 12:10 ` John Paul Wallington

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