From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: add read-file-name-completion-ignore-case user variable ? Date: 25 Jun 2004 11:20:01 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1088155247 14427 80.91.224.253 (25 Jun 2004 09:20:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 09:20:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 25 11:20:38 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Bdmsw-0004i8-00 for ; Fri, 25 Jun 2004 11:20:38 +0200 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Bdmsv-0003Cm-00 for ; Fri, 25 Jun 2004 11:20:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BdmuN-0005Bi-T2 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 25 Jun 2004 05:22:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BdmuK-0005BG-IP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jun 2004 05:22:04 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BdmuK-0005Au-0x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jun 2004 05:22:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BdmuJ-0005Ar-OL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jun 2004 05:22:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BdmsR-0004kH-V2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jun 2004 05:20:08 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BdmsP-00068X-OR; Fri, 25 Jun 2004 05:20:06 -0400 Original-To: John Paul Wallington In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:25247 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:25247 John Paul Wallington writes: > Stef's change of 2004-03-17 to `read-file-name' to set > completion-ignore-case for case-insensitive systems is hard for users > to configure -- Viktor Haag pointed this out on the gnu.emacs.help > newsgroup. > > How about having a `read-file-name-completion-ignore-case' user > variable rather than hard-coding a value according to system type? > We could still set its default value according to system type. Which your change does not seem to do. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum