From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Cc: wbe@psr.com, 28439@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#28439: suggestion: support case-independent xref-find-definitions prompt TAB
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 07:01:21 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83vakfgwvi.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f200d462-c769-a1ca-7319-8107eb0abf16@yandex.ru> (message from Dmitry Gutov on Tue, 19 Sep 2017 03:55:34 +0300)
> Cc: wbe@psr.com, bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 03:55:34 +0300
>
> On 9/14/17 8:01 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> >> Sorry, what don't we want to follow the value of completion-ignore-case?
> >
> > Because it has a much broader effect.
>
> I guessed so. But do you have a particular problem in mind?
No, just a general concern.
> > Then maybe an alternative is to make tags-case-fold-search nil by
> > default? Or make xref--read-identifier be case-insensitive if
> > case-fold-search is non-nil?
>
> The other way around: etags--xref-find-definitions can bind
> tags-case-fold-search to the value of completion-ignore-case. Or
> whichever xref-specific variable we add.
Fine with me.
> We'd also need to add case-insensitive search support to
> elisp--xref-find-definitions, I suppose. So far,
> find-function-search-for-symbol always performs case-sensitive search.
> It's rarely a problem, though, because Elisp uses capital letters very
> infrequently.
Agreed, on both counts.
> >> Maybe we could add a similar xref-specific option on top, but I'm not
> >> sure why completion-ignore-case is not good enough.
> >>
> >> We could change its default to t, though.
> >
> > Emacs-wide? Or just when completing on identifiers?
>
> Either is fine, as far as I'm concerned.
Emacs-wide is too radical, I think, and I don't think we have a good
case for justifying that.
Thanks.
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-12 22:37 bug#28439: suggestion: support case-independent xref-find-definitions prompt TAB Winston
2017-09-12 23:24 ` Stephen Berman
2017-09-12 23:31 ` bug#28439: suggestion: support case-independent xref-find-definitions Winston
2017-09-13 15:30 ` bug#28439: suggestion: support case-independent xref-find-definitions prompt TAB Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-13 23:04 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-09-14 17:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-19 0:55 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-09-19 4:01 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-09-14 18:21 ` bug#28439: suggestion: support case-independent xref-find-definitions prompt Winston
2017-09-14 22:05 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-09-14 22:33 ` bug#28439: suggestion: support case-independent Winston
2017-09-19 0:41 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-09-27 23:07 ` bug#28439: suggestion: support case-independent xref-find-definitions prompt Winston
2017-09-28 20:47 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-09-15 15:20 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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