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Article #99962completion-ignore-case
From: Arthur Gleckler
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 1990 20:30
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 1990 20:30
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I have (setq completion-ignore-case t) in my .emacs file. Unfortunately, this causes the following bug: Assume there is a buffer called 'TAGS', but no other buffer starting with 'tag' (either upper or lower case). If I type C-x b tag [TAB] (note that 'tag' is singular) the message in the Echo Area is Switch to buffer: (default foo) TAGS and if I then press [ENTER], Emacs will select the TAGS buffer. Note that when I typed [TAB] to complete 'tag', the buffer name was converted to upper case. On the other hand, if I type C-x b tags [TAB] (note that 'tags' is plural) the message in the Echo Area is Switch to buffer: (default foo) tags [Sole completion] and if I then press [ENTER], Emacs will not select the TAGS buffer, but instead will make a new buffer called 'tags'. This is wrong, because Emacs explicitly told me that 'tags' was the '[Sole completion]'. To be consistent in this case, Emacs should convert 'tags' to 'TAGS' when I hit [TAB]. Of course, if a 'tags' buffer already exists, it makes perfect sense not to convert its name to uppercase. However, since in this case Emacs tells you 'tags [Sole completion]', it should convert to uppercase, since that is in fact the completion. Happy hacking!
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fb2f1,f96f5fbc5b0b0905,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfb2f1,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1990-04-12 13:30:29 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ZURICH.AI.MIT.EDU!arthur From: arthur@ZURICH.AI.MIT.EDU (Arthur Gleckler) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Subject: completion-ignore-case Message-ID: <9004122030.AA02891@zurich.ai.mit.edu> Date: 12 Apr 90 20:30:29 GMT Sender: karl_kleinpaste@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: arthur@zurich.ai.mit.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: GNUs Not Usenet Lines: 38 Posted: Thu Apr 12 21:30:29 1990