Re: buffer name completion is case-sensitive now

[John Paul Wallington <jpw@pobox.com>]

Drew Adams wrote:

> So I guess you are saying that this change was intentional, not  
> accidental (not
> a bug).
>
> No discussion here (AFAICT)? How do such "experiments" get  
> implemented without
> any proposal and discussion?

I proposed the change on emacs-devel on April 26th 2008 and Stefan  
gave it the go-ahead:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-04/msg01877.html

> This changes long-standing standard Emacs behavior. It should be  
> reverted.

Well, that's a matter of opinion.  The default value of `completion- 
ignore-case' is nil for all other systems bar MS-Windows.  I agree  
with you that buffer names are another case, in addition to filenames,  
where MS-Windows systems should do case-insensitive completion.  I  
think that Emacs on MS-Windows has historically had an exceptional  
default value of t for `completion-ignore-case' precisely to handle  
filename and buffer name completion and that its effect on other  
completions was largely coincidental.  I would like to avoid all  
completion being case-insensitive on MS-Windows.