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bug#51858: 29.0.50; pcomplete not ignoring case
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#51858: 29.0.50; pcomplete not ignoring case |
Date: |
Mon, 15 Nov 2021 06:59:41 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita2@gmail.com> writes:
> the docstring for pcomplete-ignore-case (which is now an alias for
> completion-ignore-case) says:
>
> Non-nil means don’t consider case significant in completion.
> For file-name completion, ‘read-file-name-completion-ignore-case’
> controls the behavior, rather than this variable.
>
> But if I set read-file-name-completion-ignore-case to t I'm still unable
> to complete, for example, "cd ~/desk<tab>" to "cd ~/Desktop" in a
> shell. OTOH setting pcomplete-ignore-case to t gives the desired
> completion.
>
> I'm not sure whether something like "cd ~/desk<tab>" in a M-x shell
> counts as "file-name completion" or not, but it seems to me that it
> should.
Just to clarify -- read-file-name-completion-ignore-case works
everywhere else, but doesn't work in a *shell* buffer?
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