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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: case sensitivity in 'find file'?
Date: 23 Jun 2004 17:42:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <x54qp2th5j.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1z8yee5lz6.fsf@suldrun.rim.net

Viktor Haag <vhaag@rim.com> writes:

> I'm using Emacs 21.3.50.1 built on Mac OSX through the Fink
> project with the tarball 'emacs-21.3.50-20040617.tar.gz'.
> 
> I've seen new behaviour that I don't like; when I use 'find-file'
> the completion now seems to be case-insensitive. I find this
> annoying as it now sees ~/Library and ~/lib as similar requiring
> more keystrokes when finding a file in the ~/lib subtree.
> 
> There must be a way to retrieve the old case-sensitive behaviour
> so that ~/Lib and ~/lib are matched as different names.
> 
> Can some kind soul please let me know where the variables are
> that control this behaviour?

completion-ignore-case?

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-23 15:42 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 [this message]
2004-06-23 18:48   ` Viktor Haag
2004-06-23 17:05 ` John Paul Wallington
2004-06-23 18:52   ` Viktor Haag
2004-06-24 15:46     ` John Paul Wallington
2004-06-24 20:31       ` Viktor Haag

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