Re: case sensitivity in 'find file'?

[Viktor Haag]

John Paul Wallington <jpw@gnu.org> writes:

> There isn't presently an obvious way because the builtin
> `read-file-name' was changed to bind `completion-ignore-case' to t
> before calling `completing-read' on DOS, NT, VMS and MACOSX systems.
> 
> You could partially revert that change to Fread_file_name, eg:
> 
> --- fileio.c  22 May 2004 23:17:17 +0100      1.505
> +++ fileio.c  23 Jun 2004 17:19:07 +0100      
> @@ -6284,7 +6284,7 @@
>      }
>  
>    count = SPECPDL_INDEX ();
> -#if defined VMS || defined DOS_NT || defined MAC_OSX
> +#if defined VMS || defined DOS_NT
>    specbind (intern ("completion-ignore-case"), Qt);
>  #endif
> 
> Maybe there should be a `read-file-name-completion-ignore-case'
> user variable ?

That sounds like a fine idea, because I can easily see that users
might prefer this behaviour be configurable.

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