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From: Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: case-insensitive filename completion bug
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:06:26 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <buolk1dlnnh.fsf@dhapc248.dev.necel.com> (raw)

If I have filename called "Foo", and I try to visit it with find-file,
and have `read-file-name-completion-ignore-case' set to t, then I can
type:

   C-x C-f f o TAB

hitting TAB will (1) change the lowercase "f" I typed to be "F", and (2)
insert the missing "o".

However, if I type:

   C-x C-f f o o TAB

it will say " [sole completion]" -- but will _not_ change change the
lowercase "f" to uppercase.  Because I'm using a case-sensitive
filesystem, the final filename doesn't exist, even though emacs said it
did.

One of the main reasons I like case-insensitive completion is that Emacs
will usually take care of capitalizating of studly-caps filenames; as a
result, I instinctively hit TAB to "correct" what I just typed and then
hit RET.  So this corner case where TAB _doesn't_ do it is pretty
annoying (and occurs surprisingly often).

So I think Emacs should replace the entered name with the "correct"
completion even if they are the same length.

[This case seems to work correctly for other types of case-insensitive
completion, e.g., buffer-names.]

Thanks,

-Miles

-- 
If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten.  [George Carlin]




             reply	other threads:[~2008-06-10  8:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-10  8:06 Miles Bader [this message]
2008-06-10 18:42 ` case-insensitive filename completion bug Stefan Monnier
2008-06-13  7:38   ` Miles Bader

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