GNU bug report logs - #46368
Completion vs. "*" buffer names

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Package: emacs;

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

Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2021 16:53:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Merged with 43440

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From: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>
To: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
Cc: 46368 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#46368: Completion vs. "*" buffer names
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2021 09:59:06 +0000
>
> Look at the bottom line of the image.
> Here we see completion will never work,
> because the "*" is missing from the start of the string.
>
> (Our cursor is at the end of the line there at the bottom.)
> How did we end up this way?
> Well we just hit "un<TAB>".
> emacs-version "27.1"
>

Does (setq read-buffer-completion-ignore-case t) solve your problem?

If not, could you provide a recipe, starting with emacs -Q, to reproduce 
the problem?




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