From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: On minibuffer completion (Cygwin) Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2008 06:23:20 +0300 Message-ID: References: <4894D0A5.7030105@alice.it> <87myjuomzc.fsf@stupidchicken.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1217733814 30407 80.91.229.12 (3 Aug 2008 03:23:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2008 03:23:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, angelo.graziosi@alice.it To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 03 05:24:24 2008 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 1KPUCl-0004wI-4I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Aug 2008 05:24:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58108 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KPUBp-0002Nd-TH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Aug 2008 23:23:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KPUBk-0002KM-PM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Aug 2008 23:23:20 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KPUBk-0002IG-1p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Aug 2008 23:23:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36970 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KPUBj-0002Hr-JE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Aug 2008 23:23:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout2.012.net.il ([84.95.2.4]:45312) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KPUBj-0007Nw-5t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Aug 2008 23:23:19 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.229.228.238]) by i_mtaout2.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) with ESMTPA id <0K500087L9F4ZG80@i_mtaout2.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Aug 2008 06:23:29 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87myjuomzc.fsf@stupidchicken.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9.1 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:101987 Archived-At: > From: Chong Yidong > Cc: Angelo Graziosi , emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2008 22:23:35 -0400 > > Angelo Graziosi 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' worked fine and the completion was 'foo'; > > F' ==> 'Fio'. Now I need 'fo' or 'Fi'. > > > > 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.