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Re: add read-file-name-completion-ignore-case user variable ?
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David Kastrup |
Subject: |
Re: add read-file-name-completion-ignore-case user variable ? |
Date: |
25 Jun 2004 11:31:30 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 |
David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
> John Paul Wallington <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Stef's change of 2004-03-17 to `read-file-name' to set
> > completion-ignore-case for case-insensitive systems is hard for users
> > to configure -- Viktor Haag pointed this out on the gnu.emacs.help
> > newsgroup.
> >
> > How about having a `read-file-name-completion-ignore-case' user
> > variable rather than hard-coding a value according to system type?
> > We could still set its default value according to system type.
>
> Which your change does not seem to do.
Anyway, I am not sure this is the right approach. After all, case
insensitivity is not as much an operating system, but a file system
feature. When doing file name completion on a Windows partition
mounted on a typical Linux root file system, the "natural" behavior
would be case sensitive completion in the path components up to the
mount point, and case insensitive after that.
I doubt, however, that it would be easy to access the relevant
information from the OS.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum