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Regression in case-insensitive filename completion

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Message #15 received at 78323 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Daniel Colascione <dancol <at> dancol.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh <at> janestreet.com>,
 Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, 78323 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#78323: Regression in case-insensitive filename completion
Date: Sun, 11 May 2025 20:24:46 -0700

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

>> From: Daniel Colascione <dancol <at> dancol.org>
>> Date: Thu, 08 May 2025 15:40:16 -0700
>> 
>> With read-file-name-completion-ignore-case true, commit
>> 509cbe1c35b3dd005a53ac041f9c87ee53b8e115 breaks existing completion
>> behavior.  Suppose we have file named fooBarQux.  Previously, if I'd
>> typed "foobar" and TAB while reading a filename, then the completion
>> would be "fooBarQux".  Now, it completes as "foobarQux", which is wrong
>> and breaks, among other things, vc.
>
> Spencer, could you please look into fixing this regression?

What do you think of reverting this change while Spencer finds the cause
of the problem?

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