From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: completing-read case problem Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 11:49:22 -0700 Message-ID: References: <200411101929.iAAJThfq007309@haifa.math.ias.edu> <200411140703.iAE73Gd1019094@haifa.math.ias.edu> <005e01c4cb29$c7b8ef20$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1100544600 25804 80.91.229.6 (15 Nov 2004 18:50:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 18:50:00 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 15 19:49:46 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CTlv7-0004MD-00 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 19:49:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CTm3p-0007nJ-Qm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 13:58:45 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CTm3e-0007ky-3D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 13:58:34 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CTm3c-0007kI-Q2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 13:58:33 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CTm3c-0007k8-Nm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 13:58:32 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=main.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CTlup-0002YW-HO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 13:49:27 -0500 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CTlup-0006dn-00 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 19:49:27 +0100 Original-Received: from 170.207.1.200 ([170.207.1.200]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 19:49:26 +0100 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 170.207.1.200 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 19:49:26 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.1.200 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041105) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <005e01c4cb29$c7b8ef20$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:29883 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:29883 [Please don't top-post.] Lennart Borgman wrote: > Case insensitive please! (I am using ms windows so I am biased by my > habits in this case, but I would believe that a lot of users like case > insensitive handling. Compare with mail-addresses for example, they > are since long not case sensitive.) Internet mail addresses are defined by IETC RFCs, and have always been case insensitive. They have as much to do with the matter at hand as whether or not file names in different file systems are case sensitive: nothing. Customization group names are Emacs Lisp symbols, which are by definition case sensitive. -- Kevin Rodgers