From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: completing-read case problem
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 09:00:20 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1CThP2-0003U1-E4@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200411140703.iAE73Gd1019094@haifa.math.ias.edu> (message from Markus Rost on Sun, 14 Nov 2004 02:03:16 -0500)
> 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?
next parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-15 14:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200411101929.iAAJThfq007309@haifa.math.ias.edu>
[not found] ` <E1CTDRk-00077r-Fr@fencepost.gnu.org>
[not found] ` <200411140703.iAE73Gd1019094@haifa.math.ias.edu>
2004-11-15 14:00 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2004-11-15 15:35 ` completing-read case problem Lennart Borgman
2004-11-15 18:49 ` Kevin Rodgers
2004-11-15 20:19 ` Simon Josefsson
2004-11-15 22:06 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <jwvu0rrgm27.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
2004-11-15 19:43 ` Markus Rost
2004-11-15 23:07 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-11-16 2:52 ` Markus Rost
2004-11-21 1:10 ` Richard Stallman
2004-11-21 5:18 ` Markus Rost
2004-11-21 19:02 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-11-22 14:07 ` Richard Stallman
2004-11-16 4:00 Markus Rost
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