GNU bug report logs - #14243
24.3; Shell mode file name expansion case-sensitive on Mac OS X

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: ua2y-rti1 <at> spamex.com

Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:24:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo

Merged with 14507

Found in version 24.3

Fixed in version 29.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #10 received at 14243 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>
To: Eric Hanchrow <eric.hanchrow <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 14507 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 14243 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#14507: 24.3;
 TAB in shell mode never ignores case, even though I want it to
Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 19:54:19 +0100

Eric Hanchrow <eric.hanchrow <at> gmail.com> writes:

> I started emacs with 
>
> /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs -Q
>
> I typed M-x shell RET
>
> At the shell prompt, I typed "cd doc", then I hit the TAB key. The
> shell's current directory was my home directory, and that directory
> contains a subdirectory named "Documents". I expected the TAB key to
> complete the name "Documents", but it just beeped. I then did M-: (setq
> completion-ignore-case t) RET, and tried again, but it still just
> beeped.

Hi, sorry it's taken so long for someone to get back to you, but this
isn't Emacs's filename completion, this is the shells. Probably bash.
I'm afraid I can't help you with that.
-- 
Alan Third
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