completion-ignore-case in w32-fns.el

completion-ignore-case in w32-fns.el

[Stefan Monnier]

Any objection to removing

(setq completion-ignore-case t)

from w32-fns.el now that fileio.c sets it to t inside read-file-name
on those systems?


        Stefan

Re: completion-ignore-case in w32-fns.el

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: 18 Mar 2004 09:45:06 -0500
> 
> Any objection to removing
> 
> (setq completion-ignore-case t)
> 
> from w32-fns.el now that fileio.c sets it to t inside read-file-name
> on those systems?

completion-ignore-case is referenced in quite a few places, both in C
and Lisp code.  Are you sure they all are taken care of by
read-file-name's binding?

Re: completion-ignore-case in w32-fns.el

[Stefan Monnier]

> completion-ignore-case is referenced in quite a few places, both in C
> and Lisp code.  Are you sure they all are taken care of by
> read-file-name's binding?

I'm sure they are not.
But I think it is wrong for w32 to turn on completion-ignore-case for all
completions rather than only for file-name completion.

If we want completion-ignore-case to be on by default we should do that on
all platforms.

But maybe completion-ignore-case is misued at some places to test whether
the system's filenames are cas-sensitive or not.  We should fix those.


        Stefan

Re: completion-ignore-case in w32-fns.el

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: 18 Mar 2004 12:42:38 -0500
> 
> But I think it is wrong for w32 to turn on completion-ignore-case for all
> completions rather than only for file-name completion.

I agree with that, but I think I saw completion-ignore-case being
referenced in file-name related context in other places as well.