From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: test-completion and hash-tables
Date: 18 Dec 2003 18:05:29 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvptel91eb.fsf-monnier+emacs/devel@vor.iro.umontreal.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200312150317.hBF3Hxg16766@raven.dms.auburn.edu>
> `try-completion' and `all-completions' use `compare-strings' to compare
> strings, in its case-sensitive or case-insensitive variant, depending
> on `completion-ignore-case', independently of how the collection of
> strings is specified (alist, list, obarray, hash-table, function).
> However, when the collection of strings is specified as a hash-table,
> then `test-completion' uses whichever test the hash-table uses and, in
> particular, `completion-ignore-case' is ignored.
This is a bug.
I completely forgot the issue of case-fold when writing the code.
But I think the same problem is present with obarrays (tho you might want
to check), in which case it´s a very long standing bug.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-18 23:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-15 3:17 test-completion and hash-tables Luc Teirlinck
2003-12-15 3:46 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-12-15 4:23 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-12-18 23:05 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2003-12-18 23:57 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-12-20 0:28 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-12-21 23:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-12-20 16:58 ` Luc Teirlinck
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