From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Aaron Meurer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Make find file case insensitive Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 23:54:19 -0700 Message-ID: References: <7C0FFA78D77B49AB9A334F0E3630B38D@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1328424891 24701 80.91.229.3 (5 Feb 2012 06:54:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2012 06:54:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 05 07:54:51 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 1Rtvzs-0003DJ-68 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:54:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50150 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rtvzq-0006bj-Rp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:54:46 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:57022) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rtvzm-0006be-1p for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:54:42 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rtvzk-0008Bc-LX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:54:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-lpp01m010-f41.google.com ([209.85.215.41]:36293) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rtvzk-0008BV-Ds for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:54:40 -0500 Original-Received: by lamf4 with SMTP id f4so2939297lam.0 for ; Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:54:39 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=QC/ACvCDeCcs/GV4FJBvt8JgEZCp+Zuf+83/E7bQfv8=; b=ivME2+oYHiVFRcGsLwNSPzNr11qrk1L5koyNi8i2FcRlA3hbref2eM5K+schIL7IgM casGFz6DfOUh2tjXiNuYWH+6OgCk3C1LVD68CBE0cntD/ygZYlvjiILuAnccLo8YvWti EooGkzLBByovs3EfKsL1DPS9yXM4BsktYDNUI= Original-Received: by 10.152.130.98 with SMTP id od2mr6351776lab.3.1328424879181; Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:54:39 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.112.20.167 with HTTP; Sat, 4 Feb 2012 22:54:19 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <7C0FFA78D77B49AB9A334F0E3630B38D@us.oracle.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 209.85.215.41 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:83654 Archived-At: On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Drew Adams wrote: >> Is there a way to make tab completion in find file (C-x C-f) case >> insensitive? =A0I'm on Mac OS X with hsf+, so the filesystem is case >> insensitive. =A0I 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= . Thanks. I don't know why I missed that, because I searched M-x customize for "case". > > But in principle Emacs should do the right thing on your platform, withou= t your > needing to do anything. =A0Consider reporting a bug: `M-x report-emacs-bu= g', > providing information starting from `emacs -Q' (no init file). > I just tried it with -Q, and it works correctly there. Some investigation shows that I actually had that variable set to nil in my .emacs. I guess I misread it somewhere, or misclicked or something. Aaron Meurer