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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, angelo.graziosi@alice.it
Subject: Re: On minibuffer completion (Cygwin)
Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2008 06:23:20 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uljzelr2v.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87myjuomzc.fsf@stupidchicken.com>

> From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
> Cc: Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi@alice.it>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2008 22:23:35 -0400
> 
> Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi@alice.it> writes:
> 
> > * minibuffer.el (read-file-name-completion-ignore-case):
> >   Add cygwin to the list.
> >
> > often I need to type two keys to complete a name, while before it was
> > sufficient only one key.
> >
> > For example, if I have
> >
> > foo
> > Fio
> >
> > then before: 'f<TAB>' worked fine and the completion was 'foo';
> > F<TAB>' ==> 'Fio'. Now I need 'fo<TAB>' or 'Fi<TAB>'.
> >
> > Usually Cygwin is strictly case sensitive by default, even if it
> > lives' on a OS case insensitive. For ex.: 'mv emacs.mail Emacs.mail'
> > works; only 'cp emacs.mail Emacs.mail' doesn't.
> 
> Eli, you originally suggested adding cygwin to the list.  What's your
> opinion about this?

My opinion is that Cygwin runs on a case-insensitive filesystem, and
therefore should behave accordingly.  Users who don't like that can
always customize Emacs.




  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-03  3:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-02 21:24 On minibuffer completion (Cygwin) Angelo Graziosi
2008-08-03  2:23 ` Chong Yidong
2008-08-03  3:23   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2008-08-03 18:23     ` Stefan Monnier

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