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Miserable widget completion for type 'directory on w32

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From: Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda <at> gmail.com>
To: 7779 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#7779: Miserable widget completion for type 'directory on w32
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 12:47:50 -0300

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I can reproduce the bug in the latest master.  On a Windows machine,
and starting with emacs -Q, I do:
M-x customize-option RET tutorial-directory
and try to complete with C-M-i inside the editable-field, with different
names,
and different cases.
It doesn't work, because the completion is made case sensitive, even though
read-file-name-completion-ignore-case is t.

Also, the completion is made not only for directory names,
but also for file names.  This also happens on a GNU/Linux machine.

Since the 'file widget suffers from the first mentioned bug as well,
the attached patch tries to improve the completion for both of these
widgets.

Best regards,
Mauro.

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