From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Make find file case insensitive Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 15:52:17 -0800 Message-ID: <7C0FFA78D77B49AB9A334F0E3630B38D@us.oracle.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1328399565 20737 80.91.229.3 (4 Feb 2012 23:52:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 23:52:45 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Aaron Meurer'" , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 05 00:52:45 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RtpPN-000487-Qh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:52:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48329 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RtpPL-0006lE-R8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:52:39 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:45925) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RtpPE-0006l3-Gf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:52:36 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RtpPA-0003BI-FD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:52:32 -0500 Original-Received: from rcsinet15.oracle.com ([148.87.113.117]:28197) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RtpPA-0003BD-4R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:52:28 -0500 Original-Received: from acsinet22.oracle.com (acsinet22.oracle.com [141.146.126.238]) by rcsinet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.4/Switch-3.4.4) with ESMTP id q14NqOQW024637 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sat, 4 Feb 2012 23:52:25 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt356.oracle.com (acsmt356.oracle.com [141.146.40.156]) by acsinet22.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q14NqOZf003269 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 4 Feb 2012 23:52:24 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt102.oracle.com (abhmt102.oracle.com [141.146.116.54]) by acsmt356.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id q14NqOXq005376; Sat, 4 Feb 2012 17:52:24 -0600 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/10.159.50.114) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:52:23 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-reply-to: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 Thread-Index: AczjkOolu7LZOSEQTNC2GBIpLeCjrwABjKfg X-Source-IP: acsinet22.oracle.com [141.146.126.238] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090204.4F2DC4B9.007F,ss=1,re=0.000,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-Received-From: 148.87.113.117 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:83651 Archived-At: > Is there a way to make tab completion in find file (C-x C-f) case > insensitive? I'm on Mac OS X with hsf+, so the filesystem is case > insensitive. I didn't find any options in M-x customize for this. It depends on your Emacs version. Starting with Emacs 22, see option `read-file-name-completion-ignore-case. But in principle Emacs should do the right thing on your platform, without your needing to do anything. Consider reporting a bug: `M-x report-emacs-bug', providing information starting from `emacs -Q' (no init file).