GNU bug report logs - #181
23.0.60; OSX: Case insensitive file name completion

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Reported by: Markus Triska <markus.triska <at> gmx.at>

Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 05:40:04 UTC

Severity: wishlist

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From: Markus Triska <markus.triska <at> gmx.at>
To: emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: 23.0.60; OSX: Case insensitive file name completion
Date: Fri,  2 May 2008 07:29:01 +0200 (CEST)

On OSX 10.4.11, I have ~/Desktop and ~/DES.pdf. Until recently, when I
did "C-x C-f ~/Des TAB", it would expand to Desktop. Now, both
"DES.pdf" and "Desktop" are considered possible expansions of "Des".

I see the point, because the default file system on OSX appears to be
case insensitive. Still, it is a regression for me: I find the
previous default behaviour of Emacs (which is also the default in
22.2) much better, since it often allows faster expansion if you know
the stored case of a file. Is there a way to get it back? Thanks!


In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.2 (i386-apple-darwin8.11.1, GTK+ Version 2.12.9)
 of 2008-04-29 on mt-computer.local
Windowing system distributor `The XFree86 Project, Inc', version 11.0.40400000
configured using `configure  '--disable-font-backend''
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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: 181 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Case insensitive file name completion
Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 02:48:02 -0400

severity 181 wishlist
thanks

IIUC you'd like completion to be both case-sensitive (if that matches
something) and case-insensitive (if there's no case-sensitive match).


        Stefan
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