GNU bug report logs - #29389
C-x b oc<TAB> couldn't find "*Occur*" buffer

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>

Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 22:29:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 29389 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: John Mastro <john.b.mastro <at> gmail.com>
To: 29389 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
Subject: Re: bug#29389: C-x b oc<TAB> couldn't find "*Occur*" buffer
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 15:33:42 -0800

積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org> wrote:
> C-x b runs the command switch-to-buffer.
>
> It usually is good guessing names via tab expansion, but today when I
> typed
>
> C-x b oc<TAB>
>
> it couldn't find any buffer, so I had to do
>
> C-x b Oc<TAB>
>
> to be able to expand to the "*Occur*" buffer (that I created earlier
> using M-x occur.)

You just need to set read-buffer-completion-ignore-case to non-nil.

There are also variables completion-ignore-case and
read-file-name-completion-ignore-case for other completion scenarios.

        John
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