From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ra5ul@comcast.net: case-insensitive partial-completion-mode issue] Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:19:09 -0500 Message-ID: References: <200712081312.36389.andreas.roehler@online.de> <200712100834.15483.andreas.roehler@online.de> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1197300085 32017 80.91.229.12 (10 Dec 2007 15:21:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:21:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andreas =?iso-8859-15?q?R=F6hler?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 10 16:21:35 2007 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 1J1kRi-0002BD-1k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:21:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J1kRQ-0003Rb-Aw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:21:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J1kPX-0002N1-Fh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:19:11 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J1kPX-0002MZ-12 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:19:11 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J1kPW-0002M2-Op for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:19:10 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J1kPV-00081q-Ei for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:19:09 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J1kPV-0005cG-76; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:19:09 -0500 In-reply-to: <200712100834.15483.andreas.roehler@online.de> (message from Andreas =?iso-8859-15?q?R=F6hler?= on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 08:34:14 +0100) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:84959 Archived-At: (defun my-directory-files () " " (interactive) (setq case-fold-search nil) (message "%s" (directory-files default-directory t "f*")) (setq case-fold-search t) (message "%s" (directory-files default-directory t "f*")) (setq case-fold-search nil) (message "%s" (directory-files default-directory t "F*")) (setq case-fold-search t) (message "%s" (directory-files default-directory t "F*"))) directory-files is supposed to ignore case if the system treats file names as case-insensitive. It does not obey case-fold-search. ;;; ==> (MY-PATH/DIRECTORY/DIRECTORY/. MY-PATH/DIRECTORY/DIRECTORY/.. MY-PATH/DIRECTORY/DIRECTORY/FILE.TXT) [4 times] What system are you using? Perhaps we need something like directory-files which does obey case-fold-search. Is that the issue?