From: Viktor Haag <vhaag@rim.com>
Subject: Re: case sensitivity in 'find file'?
Date: 23 Jun 2004 14:52:28 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1zzn6u3y4z.fsf@suldrun.rim.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 877jty8at7.fsf@indigo.shootybangbang.com
John Paul Wallington <jpw@gnu.org> writes:
> There isn't presently an obvious way because the builtin
> `read-file-name' was changed to bind `completion-ignore-case' to t
> before calling `completing-read' on DOS, NT, VMS and MACOSX systems.
>
> You could partially revert that change to Fread_file_name, eg:
>
> --- fileio.c 22 May 2004 23:17:17 +0100 1.505
> +++ fileio.c 23 Jun 2004 17:19:07 +0100
> @@ -6284,7 +6284,7 @@
> }
>
> count = SPECPDL_INDEX ();
> -#if defined VMS || defined DOS_NT || defined MAC_OSX
> +#if defined VMS || defined DOS_NT
> specbind (intern ("completion-ignore-case"), Qt);
> #endif
>
> Maybe there should be a `read-file-name-completion-ignore-case'
> user variable ?
That sounds like a fine idea, because I can easily see that users
might prefer this behaviour be configurable.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-23 18:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-23 15:32 case sensitivity in 'find file'? Viktor Haag
2004-06-23 15:42 ` David Kastrup
2004-06-23 18:48 ` Viktor Haag
2004-06-23 17:05 ` John Paul Wallington
2004-06-23 18:52 ` Viktor Haag [this message]
2004-06-24 15:46 ` John Paul Wallington
2004-06-24 20:31 ` Viktor Haag
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