Subject: Re: bug#11338: 24.1.50; read-buffer-completion-ignore-case fails on one-character names

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2020 17:21:20 +0100

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> I've never used that variable before, and the behaviour was unexpected
>> to me, but I don't know what people who do use it expect.  It's pretty
>> odd, though -- the variable is about completion, but Emacs now seems to
>> interpret it as "Emacs should ignore all case differences in buffer
>> names (interactively)", which is something slightly different.
>
> RET in the minibuffer invokes completion, doesn't it?

Not usually.  Try

emacs -Q
C-x b *Me RET

You'll get a buffer called "*Me" without that being completed to
"*Messages*".

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